[Olsr-dev] netjson plugin

[Ferry Huberts]

On 22/04/16 07:58, Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Ferry Huberts <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 21/04/16 20:47, Gabriel wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, I've finally managed to get the netjson plugin working.
>>>
>>> I noticed that the "links" section contains just the 1-hop links.
>>> The NetworkGraph should be a representation of the whole network as
>>> edges and nodes.
>>
>>
>> Incorrect, the RFC says:
>>
>>> Definition: a list of nodes and links known by a node.
>>
>>
>> See http://netjson.org/rfc.html#rfc.section.4
>>
>>
>> If you want the whole network, you must query all nodes and combine the
>> info.
>
> I would disagree... OLSR(v2) is a Link State protocol... it collects
> the "Link States" of the whole network to run Dijkstra on them.
>
> Because of this it should output this information in the NetJSON Graph object.
>
> Would be stupid to ask the other nodes about data the local node already has.
>

ok ok ok
I'll see what I can do (later)

the RFC is not clear about this.
We really need to review it on the WBM