From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] switch routing algorithm at runtime
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:06:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206150603.GE6839@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111206150134.GA12168@pandem0nium>
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:01:34PM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:25:53PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > Here comes the chicken & egg problem: We can't have bat0 and its routing
> > > algorithm selection before we did not add at least one hard-interface.
>
> an alternative we may consider:
>
> We could just write the name of the algorithm in a debugfs file called
> "routing_algorithm". It is filled with batmanIV as the default algorithm
> to start with, and whatever is written there is used for the next soft interface
> to be created.
sounds good IMHO! I think this would be a really nice solution.
>
> This would be backward compatible and changes are only made upon creation of a
> soft interface. It would also allow different soft interfaces using different
> routing algorithms (if someone really needs it). Putting it into debugfs may be
> not the worst idea, as changing routing algorithms is (currently) only done for
> debugging purposes anyway.
>
> What do you think?
I agree on this solution...it merges nearly all the ideas we discussed so far.
Cheers,
--
Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-06 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-05 9:56 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] switch routing algorithm at runtime Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 9:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/3] batman-adv: add infrastructure to change " Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 9:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/3] batman-adv: convert batman iv algorithm to use dynamic infrastructure Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 9:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/3] batman-adv: allowing changing the routing algorithm via sysfs Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 11:27 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] switch routing algorithm at runtime Andrew Lunn
2011-12-05 11:35 ` Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 12:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-05 13:38 ` Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 14:09 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-12-05 14:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-05 14:44 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-12-05 14:25 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-06 15:01 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-12-06 15:06 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2011-12-06 15:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-06 15:30 ` Marek Lindner
2011-12-06 17:36 ` Simon Wunderlich
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