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> Well, at a minimum you can do a "bandwidth 44210" (or whatever) as part > of your router configuration to "tell" your router how fast it _can_ go. > > How much of this _really_ gets passed on to other nodes via BGP sessions. > If you hear a route from 4 different links, aren't you simply passing on > to your neighbor (filters aside for the moment) that you "know how to > get to that net" regardless of which way you shove the packet at any > particular time? That is, do you really pass on the destination link > info as well as the net info? What you want is an inter-provider OSPF... Faster healing. Link size consideration. Internal hop-count consideration. Internal weighting (which BGP has) that would pass between providers. But yes, you're just saying "I know how to get to X" - or better yet - "I promise to get to X if you deliver a packet to me destined for X". The origin info can be interesting but not really used unless there's a real problem making a decision, in which case it's just there as a last step against going to pseudo-random numbers. > Ed Morin Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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