[Olsr-users] Propagation

[Henning Rogge]

Am Samstag 07 August 2010, 12:43:00 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
> > the OLSR protocol does not even have a field to signal a "non-
> > routable" originator.
> 
> I think what the OP is asking for is an option to avoid installing
> a host route when it is subsumed by an HNA advertised by the same host.
> While this doesn't require any protocol changes, it's tricky to do
> right, since you must make sure that the HNA isn't itself overridden by
> a different HNA with a longer prefix.
Typically such a decission should be made by the host, not by the local node. 
OLSRv2 solves this in the current draft by allowing linklocal-IPs as 
originators to tell all nodes "this is just an id-string, not a routable 
address".

On the other side it might be possible to "compress" the routing table, but 
that makes deleting routes more difficult.

I could imagine it should be possible (for IPv6) to add a configuration option 
that OLSRd always set up a /64 route towards the originator, but that's more a 
hack than a sollution.

Henning Rogge

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