Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:34 am
Vast majority of our environment is wireless. Link speeds are inherently unreliable as they change with conditions. Trees grow, buildings get constructed in the path, others put up radio's that cause interference etc etc etc there's a million possibilities that ultimately mean you cannot predict anything for the future. I could go ahead and test every link and fine tune path costs right here and now, and that could be completely pointless in 6 months time
As a result, vast majority stay at default but do get adjusted when necessary, but point to D to point G might end up matching up costs through 2 different paths
I don't care if it initially takes a bad path. What I do care about is completely unpredictable routing and even more head scratching whilst trying to troubleshoot and find the problem. If it consistency takes a bad path thats preferable to sometimes good sometimes bad as its easily identified with a single traceroute and tests between nodes
The last thing I want is 2 separate paths being used. Plus see above about unpredictable conditions. Consistently poor is better than intermittently poor and this can be identified and fixed much faster