Hi all,
I'm working on a FIB for RIOT, and have thought about providing a
centralized managed generic address representation.
It could solve the difficulty to provide a universal support to handle
known addresses, like IPv[4|6], along with proprietary ones.
A centralized managing of the generic addresses could enable to reduce
multiple allocation for the same information shared by multiple
contexts, e.g. a routing protocol and the FIB.
Hence, this introduces a management overhead for handling the generic
addresses and for concurrent access.
The question is if such approach is reasonable and beneficial for RIOT.
I'd be happy to hear your opinion about this.
I made a prototype implementation that shows a possibility for a generic
address use.
The specific files for the generic address can be found in [1] and [2].
Best regards,
Martin
[1]
https://github.com/BytesGalore/RIOT/blob/add_fib/sys/net/include/fib/generic_address.h
[2]
https://github.com/BytesGalore/RIOT/blob/add_fib/sys/net/network_layer/fib/generic_address.c
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