[HECnet] Multinet peerings...?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-14 21:59, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
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>> On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> 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,
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> 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.

We observed VMS and RSX, and they both seemed to act as expected.
However, it is obviously not ideal under these circumstances. But as 
there are only one path (ethernet), this tiebreaker is all there is.

Some kind of router priority value, independent of the node number, 
would have been useful. But that's life.

	Johnny