I think you missed part of his comment: " of course there are always some "twinking" done regularly to give higher priorities to the higher bandwidth, link condition etc" so fiber mileage is just the base, with modifications to make it work correctly, based on bandwidth, etc. On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:58:50 -0700 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: Sush Bhattarai <netnews@sush.org> Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Tom Holbrook <tomhol@corp.earthlink.net> Subject: Re: IGP metrics on WAN links
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:25:16PM -0400, Sush Bhattarai wrote:
Think most ISPs use actual fiber miles
That seems unlikely to me. Do you really want your intra-AS traffic to always follow a short OC3 in preference to a long OC48?
Joe
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