Providers will route to their transit providers based on any number of reasons, including local policy of whether traffic should be passed to the best path or the closest exit point, monetary cost, or even load balanced across several connections. Some providers such as tech savvy even work it into their packages, paying more for the transit provider that has a better connection. This statement is far too ambiguous tho:
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">a provider is telling me that most internet providers route<br>traffic via TCP only.
<br></blockquote><br>Hope that helps,<br><br>Nick<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jerome-mhXWc29+iYPyG1zEObXtfA@public.gmane.org">jerome-mhXWc29+iYPyG1zEObXtfA@public.gmane.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jerome-mhXWc29+iYPyG1zEObXtfA@public.gmane.org">
jerome-mhXWc29+iYPyG1zEObXtfA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hi,<br><br> i need to understand how a provider routes data via its different
<br>transits, a provider is telling me that most internet providers route<br>traffic via TCP only..<br><br> and not like their service they are routing traffic to their different<br>transits based on a lot of things.. latency, network availability etc..
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