[e2e] bgp reflecting actual traffic flow (or not)

[k claffy]

8 months may be my record for email latency
impressive huh

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:27:50PM -0400, Rajesh Talpade wrote:
  > kc wrote:
  > would recommend against assumptions of either symmetric paths
  > or bgp reflecting actual traffic flow
  > unless you're writing science fiction
  
  always wondered about what new career i could launch into! :-)
  
  seriously, what's a good reference for your second point about bgp not
  reflecting actual traffic flow?

preliminary tech report finally up, have not wanted
to publish till we had more complete results
but that might not be in community's best interest so here:
http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2003/ASP/
(also linked from 'what's new' on caida.org)

remark reckon it's not going to surprise any operators, 
and it's still only a piece of the interdomain alchemistry,

but there we bgp
k