Re: 2.4.1: TCP assertion failed

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:51:28AM -0800, Cacophonix wrote:

    If possible you may want to test in the presence of asymmetric
    routing - that often causes problems with devices like these that
    rewrite tcp window advertisements in the middle of the network -
    i.e, traffic in the forward direction flows through the device,
    but in the reverse direction does not.

The packeteers detect asymmetric flows and revert to queuing; the
only rate-shape when they can see the whole conversation. Because I
work for a carrier and we have a non-negligible amount of asymmetric
routing (it's normal I say, not argue) when we had packeteers they
would get really upset.


   --cw