[78709] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Utilising upstream MED values
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard, W. Lee)
Sat Mar 19 18:35:37 2005
From: "Howard, W. Lee" <L.Howard@stanleyassociates.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:37:09 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Sam Stickland
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 9:05 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Utilising upstream MED values
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We're looking at doing outbound traffic values based on
> upstream ("tier1")
> MED values. But, of course, there's no standard for MED
> values. Assuming I
> can get definations from the upstreams as to what their MED
> values mean, I
> have to rebase them into a common range.
You've answered the question right there. Since one provides uses
apples for its MEDs, and another uses oranges, comparing them to each
other. . .
> However, a route-map (cisco, foundry) only allows you to set, add or
> subtract to an MED value, so this doesn't seem possible.
Theoretically, if you can establish a conversion constant for however
you define "far" to however ISP Apple defines it and however ISP Orange
defines it, you just have to apply that value. Match all routes
learned from AS Orange and add or subtract the conversion value. Only
works if the range of values is pretty close, though.
You *could*, if the range is small enough, write route maps to match
metric and set metric.
> Is anyone doing this, and if so how?
Or you can hack a script to do traceroutes to various arbitrary
destinations, compare to the routes learned, and evaluate the Round Trip
Time (or number of hops, or whatever) to MED, establishing your own
locally-significant table. Sounds like a lot of trouble to me, but
YMMV.
>
> Sam
>
Lee
