Re: OSPF Costs Formula that include delay.

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Raymond Burkholder <ray () oneunified net> wrote:

> > Some networks I have worked with took the average latency of each link and
> > assigned that (with some constant multiple) as the interface cost.
> >
> > Of course this all fails miserably if you are using anything like MPLS
> > underneath your OSPF.
>
> But then when using MPLS underneath, then MPLS Traffic Engineering can be
> used to do some interesting path computations and resiliency configurations.

I wasn’t attempting to promote or discourage use of MPLS. I was merely endeavoring to point out that in an MPLS world, 
OSPF costs are not how you want to manage your traffic.

Owen