[Olsr-users] olsr + IPv6 + multiple gateways/prefixes

[Henning Rogge]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Martin Garbe
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On 10/08/2015 08:48 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Martin Garbe
>> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>> What do you mean with CORE? "core" is some kind of anti-google word :)
>> http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/ncs/products/core
>>
>> Its an open source network emulator with graphical UI based on Linux
>> namespaces... it also has optional support for better linklayer
>> emulation.
>>
>>> Did you used shncpd together with olsrd? Because documenation of shncpd
>>> only mentions babel as routing protocol.
>>
>> Yes, Olsrd2 can run together with shncpd... you just need to use the
>> "lan_import" plugin to automatically import the routes with the right
>> protocol id (42 with shncpd, 73 with hnetd).
>
> I do not fully understand this. The lan_import module is used to import
> routes from local routing table. So far so good.
> Why is the right protocol id needed? Or better to ask, what happens if
> the wrong protocol id is used?
> I could not find any information about the protocol id (73 for hnetd).
> Where did you find this information?

shncpd (and hnetd) set an unique protocol ID on all routes they set...
which makes it easier to import them into the routing protocol.

The protocol ID is just an selector to prevent the importer from using
other routes.

Henning Rogge