[c-nsp] ospf auto-cost reference-bandwidth on modern gigabit networks

[Benny Lyne Amorsen]

Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> writes:

> I just don't think the topologies are realistic for BW based. It's
> just the lower BW links are then useless and never used, and wasted
> money. Idea that I'll rather travel exactly 9 10GE links than 1 1GE
> link is ridiculously atypical.

You can make things more reasonable by simply taking the square root of
the bandwidth before calculating the metric. Or logarithmic, if you
prefer.

It is not perfect, of course, but nothing is.