[HECnet] Circuit costs (again!)

[Dave McGuire]

On 01/25/2016 10:25 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> After having my links up and running a couple of days now (and they work
> fine), I've come to realize that if we want to have a somewhat efficient
> topology, we need to agree on circuit costs.
> 
> Now, that said, in todays internet world, network speeds are fast enough
> that this isn't really a big problem. So if people don't want to, I'm
> okay with that.
> 
> But otherwise we should try and use some agreed upon scheme for setting
> costs on circuits. The best suggestion I've seen so far is to base it on
> ping times. Would people be willing to adopt this and implement it all
> over the place for level 2 routers? Because, if not everyone agrees,
> then I'm wasting my time here. :-)
> 
> The exact cost scale we can discuss, if we agree on doing it. But it
> needs to be pretty much used by everyone, or else it's just a waste of
> time and energy.

  I will participate.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA