July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 7m
English
Because BGP and other routing protocols primarily focus on the next hop toward a destination at each router or hop rather than a complete path, asymmetric routing is the normal, accepted behavior when dual homing to one or two service providers. However, there are situations where asymmetric traffic flow isn't desirable, such as the network connections illustrated in Figure 2.21.

As you can see, there are a pair of firewalls, one behind each router that connects to an Internet service provider. Since firewalls generally inspect packets based on the flow to which the ...
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