[HECnet] Circuit costs (again!)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-25 18:17, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>   I will participate.
>
>    Oh, and sure - I'll go along provided I can get the routing results that I want.  Sorry to be selfish, but I'm not going to put up with some nonsensical routing path just so that we can have standardized costs.
>
>    I already put forth my requirements for the routing a while ago - there are only two.
>
>    a) If two nodes have a direct point to point link, then that link should be the preferred route.
>    b) I really want symmetrical routing.
>
> I already know that there are those who believe that symmetrical routing is impossible to achieve, so maybe I'll give up on (b).  I still want (a) though.

Symmetrical routing will be impossible. DECnet is not designed in a way 
that makes it possible.

I can accept a, but I'm not convinced it makes life better, but more to 
the point - if you want starting to tweak things based on different, 
unrelated things, this will not work, and we might as well give up right 
away.

I'm starting to feel that I'm just going to drop this. Do whatever you 
want. I'll put all my circuits at the same cost.

	Johnny

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