Re: IGP metrics on WAN links

[Me <smentzer () mentzer org>]

I think you missed part of his comment:
" of course there are always some "twinking" done regularly to give higher
priorities to the higher bandwidth, link condition etc"


so fiber mileage is just the base, with modifications to make it work
correctly, based on bandwidth, etc.

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Joe Abley
wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:58:50 -0700
> From: Joe Abley <jabley () automagic org>
> To: Sush Bhattarai <netnews () sush org>
> Cc: nanog () merit edu, Tom Holbrook <tomhol () corp earthlink net>
> Subject: Re: IGP metrics on WAN links
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:25:16PM -0400, Sush Bhattarai wrote:
> > Think most ISPs use actual fiber miles
>
> That seems unlikely to me. Do you really want your intra-AS traffic
> to always follow a short OC3 in preference to a long OC48?
>
>
> Joe

-sean
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