[Olsr-dev] [RFC] Weighted HNA plugin

[Henning Rogge]

On 07/03/2012 04:26 PM, Clauz wrote:
> Hi!
> I have developed an idea by Saverio of a weighted HNA plug-in. The aim
> is to have a fixed/set ETX for announced HNA networks, but preserving
> compatibility with nodes without the plug-in.
>
> So we introduced a fake OLSR node announcing the HNA and linked with the
> wanted ETX metric.
>
> This is achieved through "internal packet injection" code.
>
> https://github.com/ninuxorg/olsrd/blob/whna_plugin/lib/whna
> https://github.com/ninuxorg/olsrd/blob/whna_plugin/lib/whna/README_WHNA

I know they added this into the OLSRv2 draft, because they forgot to add 
it into the packet format in OLSRv1.

But I don't know if a hack like this is really a good idea, especially 
because we generate some "bogus" rule to the IP address of the faked node.

Henning Rogge
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