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Re: how is cold-potato done?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Jun 26 18:15:54 2002

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:14:12 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: dre <andre@operations.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020626122215.A45568@network.operations.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



> I guess the final question is -- why is anyone concerned about
> best-exit at all?  Doesn't shortest-exit still get the traffic
> there?  I'm willing to bet there are a lot of different answers
> to all these questions.
> 
> -dre

Hmm I have this, equal lengths in terms of geography and hops through my network
but capacity is an issue, traffic sometimes becomes imbalanced and I'd like to
be able to indicate to it which way I want to be receiving.. trouble is seems no
one listens to my MEDs!

Steve


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