Re: [Babel-users] babel topologie

2009-12-23 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Could the controller build up the topology via route request messages > (section 3.4.10 of the rfc) unicast with a prefix of 0, instead? In principle, it could. But consider what I say in Section 3 of the draft: A Babel packet MUST be silently ignored unless [...] its source port is the

Re: [Babel-users] babel topologie

2009-12-23 Thread Dave Täht
Juliusz Chroboczek writes: >> Because babel itself does not know the complete topology. > > What I have considered doing at some point (when we get around to > rewriting BabelDraw) would be to have the controller simultaneously > connected to multiple Babel nodes, and build as much of the topolog

[Babel-users] distributing default routes

2009-12-23 Thread Dave Täht
I have been fiddling with babeld. I have a configuration where the default ipv6 gateway is not running babeld, however, just a couple other routers. I'd like to distribute a default IPv6 gateway via babeld, if possible. It's unclear how to do this in the conf file. Do I use a combination of rad

Re: [Babel-users] ahcp one ipv4 address for all interfaces

2009-12-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 14:12:33 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > this makes it difficult to reach nodes with more then one interface via > > link-local when the routing protocol is not running. > > Use IPv6 with an explicit node id: > > ssh fe80::whate...@eth0 ^

Re: [Babel-users] ahcp one ipv4 address for all interfaces

2009-12-23 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> this makes it difficult to reach nodes with more then one interface via > link-local when the routing protocol is not running. Use IPv6 with an explicit node id: ssh fe80::whate...@eth0 > is there any way to change this? No, and it wouldn't be completely trivial to change. There's currentl

Re: [Babel-users] babel topologie

2009-12-23 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> A already connected to the socket for the frontend, but afaik i >> gives me just one worldview. > Because babel itself does not know the complete topology. More precisely, every Babel node knows which are its neighbours. It cannot distinguish between a second order and a third order neighbour