OT: network routing information

[Nick Davey]

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:

a provider is telling me that most internet providers route
> traffic via TCP only.
>

Hope that helps,

Nick

On 4/21/07, jerome-mhXWc29+iYPyG1zEObXtfA at public.gmane.org <jerome-mhXWc29+iYPyG1zEObXtfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
>   i need to understand how a provider routes data via its different
> transits, a provider is telling me that most internet providers route
> traffic via TCP only..
>
>   and not like their service they are routing traffic to their different
> transits based on a lot of things.. latency, network availability etc..
>
> tia,
>
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