[Olsr-dev] SOURCE_IP_ROUTES patch and router-id

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu January 28 2010 14:32:41 Jernej Kos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking into the SOURCE_IP_ROUTES in 0.5.6-r8 and see that first
> interface address is used as router ID. As this might change if an
> interface goes down (but router ID should never change) how should this
> be handled ?
> 
> Adding a loopback interface would not work as olsrd currently ignores
> all loopback interfaces (if I am reading the code right) and as such
> would not use it for its primary IP. Is there a way to fix the router ID
> that olsrd uses so it stays the same no matter what interfaces are up or
> down ?
You could just configure this IP as an additional static loopback interface.
 
> Or a better question - is this doable with stock 0.5.6-r8 or do I have
> to make a patch for it ? In the latter case, what is the best part where
> this should be done ? I see that source-ip is set in
> linux/kernel_routes.c and there is also a comment about this becoming a
> configuration option in later releases. Adding such information to the
> config file seems a trivial modification, so is this the best way to do
> it ?

It might become a config option in the next OLSR revision... if yes OLSR will 
create a lo:olsr loopback interface with the IP to be sure it has an receiver 
for incoming traffic (the development OLSR already do this).

Henning Rogge
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