Re: load-balancing

[Ben Black <ben@layer8.net>]

I believe traffic sharing gets to the core of what I was trying to
express.  If that is a less politically charged term, I propose we
use it.


Ben

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:16:15PM -0800, Steve Deering wrote:
> At 10:25 AM -0800 2/15/01, Ben Black wrote:
> >I'd like to suggest that we use the term traffic engineering rather
> >than load balancing.  There are a number of variations on the load
> >sharing theme, but in the end it all looks rather like TE.
> 
> "Traffic engineering" implies, to me, some explicit steps taken to cause
> certain traffic to take certain links or paths, which is itself just one
> point on the load-sharing spectrum.  For example, a site may well wish
> that its multiple external links be usable at the same time, but not
> take any steps to actually influence which traffic takes which link,
> relying instead on whatever load sharing naturally arises just based
> on the proximity of sources and destinations to one link or another.
> So if you're looking for a generic term, I think your words "load
> sharing" or "traffic sharing" are better, with "traffic engineering"
> and "load balancing" being more specific requirements.
> 
> Steve
>