Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement

Tue Aug 25 19:46:52 UTC 1998

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