[Interop-dev] "id" field for routes and topology

[Nemesis]

On 07/30/2015 06:03 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> Let my try to rephrase...
>
> There are protocols that have an "identification field" for each
> router that is NOT an address.

Which NetJSON type are we talking about? NetworkRoutes and NetworkGraph?

  * |router_id|: ID of the router on which the protocol is running

This router_id?

Or you mean what's in "source" and "target" in NetworkGraph and
"destination" in NetworkRoutes?

> The easiest way to make these protocols compatible with NetJSON would
> be to state that the "router-id" of NetJSON should NOT be considered
> an address but an arbitrary string for identification.
>
> Which would of course mean that IF it was an address, you would have
> to repeat it in the "Local Addresses".
>
> Was that more clear?

Almost .. :-)
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> Hey Henning,
>>
>> sorry I don't get it.
>>
>> What do you mean "we should help protocols like Babel by NOT saying the
>> router-id is an address" ?
>>
>> Federico
>>
>>
>> On 07/27/2015 06:42 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> now that we have "local addresses" I wonder if we should help
>>> protocols like Babel by NOT saying the router-id is an address. There
>>> are quite a few protocols using it just as an identifier.
>>>
>>> This would mean we would just add the olsr/bmx/batman-l3 main-ip as
>>> the first "local address"...
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
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