[Olsr-users] MIC metric

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 19:43, Juliusz Chroboczek
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> If you have good ideas about implementing it, just post them. At the
>> moment we are still in the planning phase. The move to MIC will have
>> to wait until we switch to OLSRv2, because the new packet format is
>> much more extensible.
>
> Yes, I have quite a few things to say about this, but I'm still trying
> to digest the paper.
:)

> The main thing that comes to mind is whether all of this complexity is
> really necessary.  My gut feeling is that it should be possible to
> implement a reasonable approximation to MIC without all of the
> complexity related to multiple tables.
Yes, and multiple runs of dijkstra too... that's a real pain.

Unfortunately routing on most systems have no concept of the source of
the package... but would be great to find a way around this part of
the MIC metric and do it "easier".

Henning

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