Re: Tunnel between mae-bone, stockholm & Paris

[Christian DONOT <]

Quoting > Bjorn Carlsson wrote,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I lower this value to 2, then US-traffic will flow across that tunnel and
> that is not possible. The Stockholm-Paris lines are overloaded as is, and
> adding extra load to them is just not possible.
> 
> The path stockholm -> schnell -> mae-bone has metric 1+2 = 3.
>          stockholm -> r-jusren -> mar-bone has metric 2+1 = 3 according
>          to what you suggest.
> 
> If I remember correctly, mrouted will choose the route with the lowest IP
> address when metrics are equal, so this means stockholm would get 
> multicast from source in Whashington through r-jusren, and that's not a
> good idea, I think. We want that traffic through schnell/mae-bone.
> 
> So my proposal would be to raise this metric to 3 instead..

It seems good if you raise to 3.

Mark, could you raise to 3 too ??

Thanks a lot.

Christian