[OLSR-users] Dot topology plugin

[Amit Kucheria]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 00:37, Andreas Tønnesen wrote:
> > As far as I know, what you describe is precisely what OLSRD does:
> > propagating the network topology so that each node knows the network
> > topology. All you need to display it is to extract that information from
> > ONE node.
> 
> Due to OLSRs MPR optimization, all links in the network will most likeley
> not be known to all nodes. If you want _all_ links to be distributed, you
> should set TC-redundancy to 2 on all nodes. This makes them announce all
> links in TC messages - not just MPR selectors.
> 
> - Andreas
> 

Yes. In a lot of cases I would not want -all- links to be distributed. I
just want enough information distributed so that each node can forward
the packet in the right direction.

Also, think about cases where a link is flaky. In that case, the network
will be converging forever.

/Amit
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