If you wanted to compare against something that already exists, the only thing I can think if would be the routing module along with the spanning tree module.
-- Murphy On Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:44:15 AM marwen mechtri wrote: > Hi all, > > could you tell me please if there is a module that calculates the shortest > path (it handles loops). > > Best regards > Marwen > > 2011/5/20 marwen mechtri <[email protected]> > > > Hi all > > > > Thank you for your replay. > > > > I said "the module don't give any result" because when I ping form source > > host the destination is not reachable. I think it's a problem of loop, > > because in a partial mesh I have many path from source to destination. > > > > I developed a Nox application and one of the feature of this application > > is to instantiate path from source to destination. And I would like to > > evaluate my module with another existing module in Nox. that's why I'm > > looking for an application developed with Nox to do this evaluation. > > > > Thanks in advance > > Marwen > > > > 2011/5/19 Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> > > > >> What do you mean by "don't give any result"? > >> > >> Do you have NOX working on topologies besides your partial mesh one? > >> > >> You'll need to have the topology component and probably the discovery > >> component running, so please make sure they are (start nox with -v or -v > >> -v). > >> > >> Your problem may be that the routing module does not deal well with > >> loops. There is a spanning tree component that aims to fix this. You > >> can find it at > >> http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/Basic_Spanning_Tree . It will take > >> a > >> little tweaking to get it running on current releases of NOX, but I > >> think it's > >> mostly just changing the meta file (you can try the meta file conversion > >> script, > >> which should be in the scripts directory in the destiny branch if I > >> remember > >> right). > >> > >> -- Murphy > >> > >> On Thursday, May 19, 2011 05:13:17 AM marwen mechtri wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I'm exploring "routing", "sample_routing" and "switch" module of Nox > >> > but when I configure a partial mesh network this modules don't give > >> > any > >> > >> result. > >> > >> > Could you tell me if this modules use dijkstra to calculate Path > >> > between source and destination. And if not, do you know a module that > >> > use > >> > >> dijkstra > >> > >> > or any kind of method to calculate source to destination Path, could > >> > you please give me its name. > >> > > >> > Thinks > >> > Best regards > >> > Marwen _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev
