[MLB-WIRELESS] connection value/cost for the main net

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

For those who are using the latest version of Zebra/OSPF (Quagga) that does
actually work (as opposed to...well anything else),  you may have stumbled
across the beginnings of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching)
implementation in a few places.

I believe it is intended that eventually Quagga(Zebra) will support MPLS,
which would provide what we need.  An ability to reserve enough bandwidth
for important services such as ospf route updates, gaming traffic, IRC,
etc. and then leave FTP and web traffic with whatever is left in the pipe.



>On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 11:03 pm, James Healy wrote:
>> There was a "lively" discussion last year about a writing a dynamic
>> routing protcol that took these factors into account, and used QOS to
>> give people that are putting more into the network higher priority.
>
>snip
>
>> look for the thread about "applications on the network","node x is over
>> here" and "mojo"
>
>or save yourself some pain and don't... :-)
>
>serious networker hat now...
>
>routing in adhoc networks has been done to death with no resolution in
site.  
>But we are not really building an adhoc network are we? we are building a 
>ifxed but somewhat variable network rather like the real internet. With 
>likely heaps of local mobile wireless adhoc but (and this is important)
edge 
>of the network disconnections and reconnections.
>
>worry about the core of the network. the edges should take care of
themselves 
>(with a bit of help of course) With out a core, there is no network.
>
>Now, having said that, we should not confine ourselves to the extended
star 
>network so common on the internet.  besides, wireless is inherently
confined 
>in a physical envelope. even with perfect line of sight and good antennas,

>data rate and distance have an inverse squared relationship. want to go
twice 
>as far? either 1/4 the rate or have an intermediate repeater and suffer
twice 
>or more delay time.
>
>also we are sharing with everybody. so speak quietly but get a big arse 
>antenna!!!
>
>OSPF should be just fine...  so if that is what you are thinking of and
the 
>"value" of the network you are talking about is the factors in the OSPF 
>implementation,. then fine... otherwise... huh?
>
>-- 
>Dr Paul van den Bergen
>Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
>caia.swin.edu.au
>pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
>IM:bulwynkl2002
>"And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones 
>to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. 
>They say it is to see how the world was made."
>Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 
>
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