[Interop-dev] Alias list in NetJSON

[Henning Rogge]

Hi,

maybe it would be more clear to call the list "Local Addresses" ?

Its just a list of addresses (Mac/IP) which you can use to talk to this node.

Henning

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On 06/01/2015 03:47 AM, Gabriel wrote:
>
> On 12/05/2015 15:40, Henning Rogge wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
>>> We noticed different routing protocols keep a list of aliases.
>>>
>>> It seems olsr jsoninfo and txtinfo use a list called "aliases" (jsoninfo)
>>> or
>>> "MID" (txtinfo), while batman-adv for each node has a "primary" attribute
>>> which is a string and a "secondary" attribute which is a list of strings.
>
>>
>> MID is the list of interface addresses. So you could consider them
>> "secondary" compared to the "primary" originator address.
>>
>> Henning
>>
>
> I've opened an issue on github with a proposal, please comment it.
>
> https://github.com/interop-dev/netjson/issues/15
>
>
> I sent that link to Antonio (ordex), batman-adv contributor, he told me he's
> confused by the naming of the issue, because batman-adv does not have
> secondary ids, just one id and secondary interfaces.
>
> He also told me that before standardazing we should see if "alias" in other
> routing protocols have the same meaning.
>
> Federico