On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Avi Freedman wrote:
There are definitely operational considerations - whether it's for peering or for transit, MFS needs to know whether switch A/port 2 is sending 10mb of uni- or bi-directional traffic to switch X/port M in order to balance their switch loads well...
MFS is already doing some amount of interprovider flow analysis. This information is used to decide on when and where to add trunks between the Gigaswitches as well as the impact of moving high load users between switches. Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+