[Olsr-dev] Multi-Topology Routing for OLSR

[Ferry Huberts]

On 06-08-12 17:46, jpo wrote:
> Hello all,
> I already brought this topic up in the OLSR-Users list, but I think the development list is a more appropriate venue.
>
> Basically what I'm interested in is what RFC 4915 provides for OSPF: a way to define topologies as subsets of the "physical" topology and calculate independent routing tables for each of these subset topologies.
>
> Using the policy based routing tool chest would allow the selection of the routing table and those the topology for packets based on configurable markers.
>
> Questions:
> Is there somebody besides me interested in this?
> Are you aware of an existing implementation (not necessarily in olsr.org)?
> What needs to be done in olsrd to make this reality?
>
> Here are my thoughts:HELLO, TC and probably MID need changes to carry the topology-id with the link information.
> The internal link state databases need to be extended.
> SPF calculation has to be done for each known topology.
>

That would mean a spec change.
OLSR v2 is already spec-ed and in final call 
(http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2/?include_text=1).

So you're talking about v3...
Good luck with getting that past IETF...


> Anything I'm missing?
>
> Thanks in advance and kind regards
>    Joerg
>
>

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Ferry Huberts