[Olsr-dev] Multipath routing in OLSRD

[Henning Rogge]

On Dienstag 03 März 2009 16:41:18 Ralf Lübben wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 March 2009 16:30:32 Henning Rogge wrote:
> > Am Tuesday 03 March 2009 16:18:07 schrieb Ralf Lübben:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm working on a multipath extension for olsrd, so far I decided to
> > > implement a "k shortest path" algorithm in olsrd.
> > > The algorithm is based on dijkstra, so I can reuse the existing
> > > functions.
> >
> > So you plan to implement source-routing (OLSR use "hop-by-hop" routing) ?
>
> No, the routing should be normal IP routing.
>
> To enable multipath routing I think about to use "multiple routing tables"
> and iptables to utilize the different paths which where calculated before
> by the "k shortest path" algorithm
With routing tables you can only control the next hop for your traffic. How do 
you plan to force to keep the two (k) datastreams apart from each other ? 

Henning
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