[50140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IGP metrics on WAN links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sush Bhattarai)
Fri Jul 19 14:27:52 2002
From: "Sush Bhattarai" <netnews@sush.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, "Tom Holbrook" <tomhol@corp.earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:25:16 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Think most ISPs use actual fiber miles (with an arithmetic factor to get to
a certain range of course) as the means for the value of IGP metrics... of
course there are always some "twinking" done regularly to give higher
priorities to the higher bandwidth, link condition etc.
Sush
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Holbrook" <tomhol@corp.earthlink.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: IGP metrics on WAN links
>
> Just curious as to what people are using for metrics in their IGP and what
> their reasons are; bandwidth? geographical distance? latency? etc...
>
> Thanks
> -Tom
>
> __________________
> Tom Holbrook
> Sr. Network Engineer
> Atlanta
> Earthlink
>
