[19095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Aug 26 13:32:01 1998
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:46:52 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@alink.net>
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
CC: ahp@hilander.com, jcurran@bbnplanet.com, nanog@merit.edu
Sean M. Doran wrote:
>
> Actually the distribution problem is pretty simple.
>
> In your forwarding table add a per-prefix cost.
>
> The cost is expressed in terms of tokens.
>
> The tokens are deducted from a token bucket.
>
> The number of tokens in the bucket (depth and refresh-rate) is
> arrived at by some engineering or sales process.
>
> This polices MEDs nicely.
Hm. Aggregation breaks that scheme nicely. Absense of
aggregation breaks routing nicely.
--vadim
