[43497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Communities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Oct 16 05:52:25 2001
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:51:46 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* iljitsch@muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum) [Tue 16 Oct 2001, 10:48 CEST]:
> I've been thinking about other information that could be conveyed in
> communities. For instance, bandwidth, delay and packet loss. If each
> router along the way modifies such a community (should probably be an
> extended one) then a much richer set of information would be available
> to multihomers to aid in route selection.
And generate a route flap every time a link gets used more or less?
That would be suboptimal to say the least (the word `countereffective'
seems more applicable to me).
-- Niels.
