Re: Host-based may be the way to go, but network controls areneccessary

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Peter Tattam wrote:

> > Simple. If you have two or more connections to the internet, you want to
> > use them to your advantage. This means balancing the total traffic (not
> > individual sessions) over all links and being able to prefer one link
> > over another for individual destinations.

> As an ISP, I often want the reverse.  Some links are backup and cost a lot more
> to run and should be deprecated.  Other links might be flaky or have bizarre
> characteristics (e.g, radio or satellite) so that they should be deprecated for
> some reason (or only be used in one direction).

How is this the reverse, other than that the list of "individual
destinations" is very long (the whole internet)?