[HECnet] Circuit costs (again!)

[Robert Armstrong]

> Paul_Koning  (Paul_Koning at Dell.com) wrote:
>just setting all costs to the same number would not be all that horrible,
either

  The effect of this would be to make DECnet prefer the route with the least
number of hops.  That makes a lot of sense to me and I would absolutely
agree, BUT there's a problem...

  The problem is the HECnet bridge program.  The bridge effectively makes
everything adjacent to everything else, even though the actual communication
goes thru psilo.  Thus things look to DECnet like they're only one hop away
when in reality they're at least two.

  The consequence of this is that two machines which both have a connection
via the bridge and which have a direct point-to-point link between them
(e.g. Multinet) will sometimes decide to talk via the bridge and will ignore
the direct link.  At least for my part, that not the behavior I want.

Bob