On Saturday, January 05, 2013 07:28:20 NicoEchániz wrote: > >> One other change that might be interesting would be the addition of a > >> setting for how much the advertised throughput affects gw selection. > >> I've seen Jan uses 96/96Mbit as advertised throughput on one router; I > >> do the same on our "main gateway", but maybe it would be better if we > >> could actually advertise the real throughput and have a setting to > >> control how much the bandwidth difference affects the selection. > > > > Again, feel free to propose something which can be discussed. > > It could just be implemented as a new setting like: gw_bw_weight > > which would regulate how much gw bandwidth/throughput affects best gw > calculation. > > I don't know what's the current algorithm but I guess there would be no > problem with backwards compatibility here; if the value is not set, the > default should produce the same result we get now. > > [..] > > I like this better than gateway classes that Jan proposed, as it is less > implementation specific.
How about you and Jan discuss the matter to come up with a combined proposal which solves both your problems ? > PS: Marek, there are mismatched parenthesis in the new man page text in > this paragraph: The parenthesis is ok but groff has problems compiling that section. I re- posted a cleaned up version of Pau's proposed fix. In the future don't hesitate to post a patch for such trivial things otherwise you will have to wait until somebody comes around and does the work for you. Cheers, Marek
