link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread Randy Bush
a fellow researcher wants to make the case that in some scenarios it is very important for a network operator to be able to specify that traffic should *not* traverse a certain switch/link/group of switches/group of links (that's true right?). Could you give some examples?

Re: link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 5/6/2015 3:56 PM, Randy Bush wrote: a fellow researcher wants to make the case that in some scenarios it is very important for a network operator to be able to specify that traffic should *not* traverse a certain switch/link/group of switches/group of links (that's

Re: link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: a fellow researcher wants to make the case that in some scenarios it is very important for a network operator to be able to specify that traffic should *not* traverse a certain switch/link/group of switches/group

Re: link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread Owen DeLong
The most common place where I have encountered that would involve differing AUPs on different links. For example, if one has a link which is built on an amateur radio layer 1, one cannot carry commercial, pornographic, encrypted, or certain other kinds of traffic on that link. I believe

Re: link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at wrote: On 5/6/2015 3:56 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I don't think it is common, but I have a microwave network made up of a combination of license-free links and amateur radio band links (where no commercial traffic is permitted).

Re: link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread Scott Whyte
On 5/6/15 15:56, Randy Bush wrote: a fellow researcher wants to make the case that in some scenarios it is very important for a network operator to be able to specify that traffic should *not* traverse a certain switch/link/group of switches/group of links (that's true

Re: link avoidance

2015-05-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: a fellow researcher wants to make the case that in some scenarios it is very important for a network operator to be able to specify that traffic should *not* traverse a certain switch/link/group of switches/group