[Olsr-dev] best-originator

[Hannes Gredler]

giovanni,

olsr needs to figure out if several routers in the olsr network
do announce a certain prefix and if so determine the closest
(= best). in your example only the olsr router with id 192.168.3.103
was announcing a prefix 192.168.3.103/32 and since there have not been any
redundant advertisements this is considered the best announcement which
will ultimately get installed in the kernel.

/hannes

Giovanni Di Stasi wrote:
> What does best-originator mean?
> 
> Have a look at this debug message:
> ROUTING TABLE
> 192.168.3.103/32, via 0.0.0.0, best-originator 192.168.3.103
> 	from 192.168.3.103, etx 2.128, metric 1, via 192.168.3.103, void, v 393
> 192.168.3.104/32, via 192.168.3.104, best-originator 192.168.3.104
> 	from 192.168.3.104, etx 1.147, metric 1, via 192.168.3.104, wlan1, v 393
> 
> Thanks.
>