Michael McConnell <[email protected]> writes: > Hello Mike, > > There is no concept of latency by peer in any main stream routing > protocol because latency can be influenced by traffic load, which > would create a real mess trying to understand the traffic flow. If you > know one link is always lower latency than the next you simply set the > cost manually at startup.
The Babel routing protocol does actually have such a concept; it's not currently implemented in Bird, however. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jonglez-babel-rtt-extension-01 for details. -Toke
