[Interop-dev] Topology JSON

[Henning Rogge]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> I think NetworkRoutes is the representation of the routing table
>> created by a routing agent. Doesn't matter how it was calculated, just
>> a bunch of destinations, next-hops, interfaces and "costs" to give you
>> an idea how far the destination is away compared to other routes.
>>
>> NetworkTopology is the knowledge of the links in the whole mesh...
>> maybe we should split this into two "subgroups".
>>
>> The "neighborhood" should contain knowledge about other routers you
>> can directly communicate to (and maybe data you directly got from them
>> for two-hop knowledge?). This is something the local router collected
>> itself and has a very accurate knowledge about. I think both
>> distance-vector and linkstate protocols collect this information.
>>
>> The "topology" is knowledge about the whole network graph, most likely
>> based on information you got from other routers. Linkstate protocols
>> need this data to do their job, distance-vector protocols don't (but
>> might deliver it through some optional query mechanism).
>
> Do you think something like this would suffice?
>
> http://pad.eigenlab.org/p/netjson-topology
>
> Or do you think something is missing?

The metric should be neighbor dependent... with a topology, you are
representing (at least for OLSR) data between nodes.

Henning