On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Alia Atlas wrote:
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?
I'd say it's useful but not necessary. It's hard to justify to put it in as a requirement but if the routing protocol would provide it as-is, I'd definitely wouldn't want to rip it out. If the user happens to connect two routers with two different cables, why not use the capacity available? This would of course still mean you look at media type and speed when setting metrics so that you don't send some traffic over a slow and unreliable link if a fast and reliable link is available.
Doing explicit paths sounds like TE? No, that's never been discussed and I don't think anyone is envisioning this happening because homenet has so far not been about overlay networks.
If we were to rev the architecture document, I'm sure it would look different than what it looks like right now. There are things that weren't brought up in it that people just thought were obvious (I believe).
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