[Olsr-users] Loops in OLSR

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I was really surprised to see some couples of nodes having loops
> between them (85% of experience time it was a loop for some
> couples)!!! Is it normal?

Yes, OLSR is a link-state protocol built on an unreliable transport.
Transient routing loops are part of the normal functioning of such
protocols.

See slide 7 of

    http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/babel-funkfeuer.pdf

to see how that can happen.

                                        Juliusz