[HECnet] Multinet peerings...?

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

> On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> wrote:
> 
>> The values are somewhat arbitrary; it doesn't really matter what
>> scheme you use but if you are inconsistent the routing may be
>> surprising. 
>> 
>> The routing spec has a suggested algorithm (100,000/line speed)
>> which may have made sense in the old days but for modern networks
>> isn't terribly useful. 
>> 	paul
> 
> What I wanted to get to was a scenario where traffic was symetric
> between two nodes, eg, use the same links from a-b as b-a, it makes it
> much easier to understand what's wrong when things behave funny...

If costs are the same at both ends of a link, that will certainly help.  Then again, it is quite possible for two paths to have equal cost, and if so, DECnet implementations will pick one of the two, in a way that is not specified.

	paul