[Olsr-users] [Olsr-dev] Good ideas about interface IPs in OLSR

[ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)]

> The "ethernet" settings tells OLSR that this interface has no real loss on
> it's broadcast domain (either anyone gets it or noone gets it), so it does not
> need to retransmit OLSR packages received from this interface back into the
> interface again.

Maybe it also makes sense to put a default ETX value (say 1) for
ethernet links, because there is suppose to be no packet loss on them.

> Another part of the puzzle is the idea to set the source address of all routes
> to the main IP. This way any package created on the router will have the main-
> IP of the router as the source field. It needs some additional work, but
> Markus Kittenberg is already working on it.

Mmm... this removes the need for MID messages ? :)

> In the end (which might be a year away or more) it would be nice to reduce the
> importance of the interface IPs even more, so that we can switch to link-local
> (autoconfigured !) addresses in IPv6.

Just keep in mind that IP packets with a IPv6 link-local destination
are not forwarded by routers.

Saverio