[Interop-dev] make metric a optional property of NetworkRoutes, NetworkGraph, and each Route object

Henning Rogge (spam-protected)
Mon Apr 4 12:56:53 CEST 2016


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> I remember that on one of the OLSR-Interop meetings we actually had a
> group present an extension to OLSR which would deal with multiple
> metrics at once, however it was (if I remember correctly) somehow
> connected to different ToS bits being set or so.
>
> The idea (again, if I remember correctly) was that you would route
> different packets (let's say latency senstive ones) differently
> according to different metrics.
>
> Anyway. No idea if this ever made it into practice in some network.

We already do this with olsrd2 at Fraunhofer FKIE... this is not
theoretical/idea, this is running code.

Henning



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