[Olsr-users] FIBMetric field in OLSRd 0.5.6-r2

Henning Rogge (spam-protected)
Tue Mar 17 16:49:45 CET 2009


On Dienstag 17 März 2009 07:58:59 Bhat, Ishwara wrote:
> Hi,
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> Please tell what is FIB Metric - Forwarding Information Base Metric. I
> searched the old threads and found the description below. However I still
> could not follow it.
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> Is this setting about the actual IP routing table content vis-à-vis the
> contents of OLSR's repository?
I think the setting tries to use the hopcount of the target as the "cost" 
value of the routing entry, which nerver worked really well (OLSR had problems 
cleaning up routes like this).

I would use the flat metric.

Henning
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