Latency based path selection

JLP b2a083e4fcb25ddd at mateu.be
Fri Mar 1 09:07:56 CET 2013


Le 01.03.2013 00:09, Matthew Walster a écrit :
> On 28 February 2013 23:06, Ryan Whelan <rcwhelan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to make route selection based on path latency? (or 
>> even
>> delegate path selection to an external app/program/api?)
>> [...] 
> 
>> Any input / suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> This might sound a little too obvious, but why not just set the
> metric of the link to the number of micro/milliseconds measured across
> it?

Because :
1/ that is not an automatic process
2/ you can't do real time adaptation to the latency

But unfortunately, this is probably the simplest/easiest way to do it.



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