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Due to internet problems in Egypt earlier today with Telecom Egypt, I had a traceroute to the same destination going via _8_ different paths. Have to say that's twice the higher number of ECMPs I've seen on the internet in the past.

And yes, traffic is routing different ways from my Cairo office to my UK core --London ->Cairo is direct and still suffering massive loss, Cairo->London is now routing via ntt and seems fine. If they haven't fixed it by tomorrow might have to change some local prefs.

It's extremely rare but the data paths can be asymmetrical too. Eg satellite with a ground based uplink.

TY, will read! I touched on this duality in the article actually :)