[Olsr-dev] getting the etx value to a destination

[Henning Rogge]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 15:41:47 schrieb ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto):
> Hello,
>
> working at the OBAMP plugin I arrived at the following problem:
>
> When I receive a OBAMP message from a OBAMP node, I need to know the
> distance, in terms of ETX from me to that node.
>
> I know the IP address (from the header of the OLSR message I receive)
> of the other node.
>
> What function I can use to query the OLSR internal database and find
> the ETX to a given destination ?
> What is the header file I have to look into to find the correct function ?
For olsrd 0.5.6 the txtinfo is the best way to do this.

For olsrd tiptip (the development branch which will become the next stable 
one) we could implement a special "ask for linkcost value" command. ETX is a 
floating point value, so working with raw linkcost might be a good idea.

Henning

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