Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement

[Vadim Antonov <avg () alink net>]

Sean M. Doran wrote:
> Actually the distribution problem is pretty simple.
>
> In your forwarding table add a per-prefix cost.
>
> The cost is expressed in terms of tokens.
>
> The tokens are deducted from a token bucket.
>
> The number of tokens in the bucket (depth and refresh-rate) is
> arrived at by some engineering or sales process.
>
> This polices MEDs nicely.
 
Hm.  Aggregation breaks that scheme nicely.  Absense of
aggregation breaks routing nicely.

--vadim