Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[John Stracke <francis at ecal.com>]

Christian Huitema wrote:

> At 04:29 PM 12/14/99 -0500, John Stracke wrote:
>
> >> it only makes a difference if a
> >> connection to a transit provider breaks,
> >
> >Or if the chosen path becomes congested over time.
>
> No. This is no different from the present situation. BGP does not recompute
> routes in case of congestion.

But the routers do load balancing, don't they, with the result that a TCP
connection's packets may migrate from a congested path to an uncongested one?
Or is this something that winds up not working in actual practice?

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