eliminating the shirikan (sp?)

Tom Anderson (tom@emigrant)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:38:36 -0700 (PDT)

Although it just occurred to me, this seems so obvious it probably
has been suggested already; if so, I apologize for repeating it.

Because we are using traceroutes, rather than pings, we have
measured round trips to interior routers, not just end points.
So one way to eliminate the shirikan or hook routing (where
the Detour route goes over the same link twice) would be to see if
we get better Detour performance by using intermediate routers as
transit points, rather than only end nodes as we do now.

tom