20 Sep
2002
20 Sep
'02
3:42 p.m.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of David Diaz Subject: Re: Cogent service
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The hop count question is interesting. Is the consensus that it's mostly a customer service issue, where latency isnt affected but customer perception is? Or is it a real latency issue as more routers take a few CPU cycles to make a routing decision.
Dave
An occasionally-overlooked result of engineering your network so that any point in your core is one hop away from any other point is that you negate the second-to-last BGP path selection criteria, which will take you down to the router-ID tiebreaker from time to time.