[Olsr-dev] Patch Orgy Syncup

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> b) Small Hysteresis on HNA4 0/0 to prevent routing flaps especially
>    when ETX(a) slowly grows and ETX(b) slowly shrinks there is a 5
>    minute "flaptime" for such a route. This is not nerve wrecking with normal
>    host routes, but the NAT on 0/0 gateways triggers "lost connections" for
>    every gateway change then.

Could you describe how that works?  I'm worried it might create
routing loops.

> I'am currently evaluating the possiblity of a "ping-of-death". Means a 
> probe-ping-packet from time to time with a faked dest-IP / sender-MAC to 
> check, if a neighbour has enabled IP_FORWARD and does not block traffic 
> (firewalled end-user-windows-pc-to-be-kicked-off-the-routing-scheme).

Sounds interesting.  Please let us know about your experiments.

I'm not sure that's the right level, though.  I'd extend the protocol
with a new ``ban'' packet type and write the probing/banning tool
separately.

                                        Juliusz