14 Jan
2016
14 Jan
'16
9:02 p.m.
The values are somewhat arbitrary; it doesn't
really matter what
scheme you use but if you are inconsistent the routing may be
surprising.
The routing spec has a suggested algorithm (100,000/line speed)
which may have made sense in the old days but for modern networks
isn't terribly useful.
paul
What I wanted to get to was a scenario where traffic was symetric
between two nodes, eg, use the same links from a-b as b-a, it makes it
much easier to understand what's wrong when things behave funny...
Maybe performance is not the most important factor in Hecnet.?
-P
Ps: In parts of the big internet, the metric for a link reflects it's
delay (remember speed of light in glass is not that great...).