Hi Henning,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Henning Rogge <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ted, I asked a question about a feature that is considered critical in
> every
> > routing environment that I am familiar with.
> > I find it frustrating that looking ahead to significantly more complex
> home
> > networking topologies and link types, which may be
> > many years out still, is unexceptional, but asking about a feature that
> > allows better use is described as premature optimization.
> > I am asking about a routing requirement.
> >
> > I still am not clear on how link interference is handled for different
> > destinations.
>
> The options I know are "ignore it" or "include the interference domain
> size into the link cost".
>

Ok - it makes sense to me about including it in the link cost.


> Still, using multipath in wireless environments can be tricky... it is
> quite easy to mess up even with two paths and get less throughput than
> from a single path.
>

So the concern is getting worse throughput to the same destination - but for
different destinations, one just hopes the information in the link cost are
sufficient?


> There is also the point that multipath choices tend not to be
> isometric... just because the two paths from your local point of view
> seem to be good they are not necessarily good from the point of view
> of the next hop.
>

In a way that can't be captured by link metrics?  I haven't really looked at
the unique characteristics for wireless.  I'm happy to do a bit of
self-education.

Thanks,
Alia


> Henning Rogge
>
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