Disregard OSPF path

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Feb 17 16:37:41 CET 2020


On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 01:22:22PM +0100, Robert Sander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 17.02.20 09:03, Kees Meijs wrote:
> > 
> > The path I'm trying to avoid has the lowest OSPF cost but in the
> > physical world the most... :-)
> 
> I always thought the OSPF cost represents the "physical" cost of a link.

Hi

There is no such think as 'physical' cost of a link. Cost is always an
administrative property. There are several physical properties of a link
(like latency, throughput, technology) and it is a question of policy how
to convert them to OSPF cost.

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