Dynamic cost?

Michael McConnell michael at winkstreaming.com
Wed Dec 21 22:54:25 CET 2016


Thanks for the link, one of these days I’ll have to give Babel a try. Reading section 2.3 Stability Issues sure does hurt my head imaging how wrong that could go (:

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> On Dec 21, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> Michael McConnell <michael at winkstreaming.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello Mike,
>> 
>> There is no concept of latency by peer in any main stream routing
>> protocol because latency can be influenced by traffic load, which
>> would create a real mess trying to understand the traffic flow. If you
>> know one link is always lower latency than the next you simply set the
>> cost manually at startup.
> 
> The Babel routing protocol does actually have such a concept; it's not
> currently implemented in Bird, however.
> 
> See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jonglez-babel-rtt-extension-01 for
> details.
> 
> -Toke

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