[HECnet] Multinet peerings...?

Paul_Koning at Dell.com Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Thu Jan 14 12:59:47 PST 2016


> On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> ...
> The situation where you loose is when you go from one area to another, and you have several area routers on the same ethernet segment you yourself are on. In this situation, DECnet will pick the highest numbered node in the remote area,

Yes, and indeed that is the tiebreaking rule for equal cost paths in general.  I had forgotten that.  It would not surprise me if that particular detail is not always implemented according to the spec.

	paul




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