Communities

Tue Oct 16 09:51:46 UTC 2001

* iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum) [Tue 16 Oct 2001, 10:48 CEST]:
> I've been thinking about other information that could be conveyed in
> communities. For instance, bandwidth, delay and packet loss. If each
> router along the way modifies such a community (should probably be an
> extended one) then a much richer set of information would be available
> to multihomers to aid in route selection.

And generate a route flap every time a link gets used more or less?
That would be suboptimal to say the least (the word `countereffective'
seems more applicable to me).

	-- Niels.