On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes - downstream paths, as I already said.  That is going to next-hops that
> are closer to the destination than the computing router.  As long as your
> next-hop's distance to the destination is strictly decreasing, it is safe to
> use.

In theory yes... in practice (especially in the presence of wireless
links) you might just spam your airspace by producing lots of
additional collisions.

> There are two questions.  First, is the desirable to load-balance among
> different paths useful/necessary/unnecessary in homenet?  Second, is that
> accomplished with metric assignment that encourages equal-cost, are
> downstream paths used, and/or is there a way of doing explicit paths?

Making the metric too simplistic means you cannot deal with a
heterogeneous network like a mixture of ethernet (of different link
speeds) and wifi (with LOTS of different link speeds and frame loss).

Henning Rogge

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