To: nelson@media.mit.edu (Nelson Minar)
bcc: jhawk
Subject: Re: Internet practical routing reading? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Dec 1997 22:06:48 EST."
             <199712030306.WAA16502@pinotnoir.media.mit.edu> 
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:46:12 EST
From: elliot


          I'm particularly interested in the story on dynamic routing.

The story on dynamic routing is that it's not really done, if by dynamic
routing you mean changes in routing due to congestion. The routing
protocols that run do update routing dynamically based on reachability
and statically configured metrics. Basically, the Internet community
seems to have decided dynamic routing is a bad idea due to stability
problems. (Heck, there are already stability problems just from updating
things based on reachability information.)

          You covered some of this stuff in your lecture - are there
          good books or overview papers? I'm looking for a reading to
          give a class this week.

Christian Huitema's book Routing in the Internet is probably the best
reference on this I can think of off-hand. Hope I didn't reply too late.

Cheers,

elliot
