North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why doesn't BGP...
> Look, I can do a "show interface" on any interface and see what speed > it's running at and if it's dropping packets. If BGP hears a route > on an interface that isn't dropping packets shouldn't _that_ route > be considered "best" all other things being equal (hop counts and > all)? You can't tell me the router doesn't know this information > because _I_ get the information from the router itself!! > > I understand about route instabilities, etc. All I'm talking about > here is a better "tie breaker" than ordinate numbers of IP addresses. The router really can't see how fast an interface *can* go unless it's maxed out. That's not really useful information in a route-selection decision. It's possible that the packet loss might weight a better path but you would have to be careful about reweighting 20k paths every few minutes... Especially if you pass those decisions on to other routers :) Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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