[manet] Re: A partial response to <Re: Review draft-perk ins-manet-aodvv2-05>

Hello Charlie,

> Prior to resubmission last year, I reviewed the comments I was able to
> find about AODVv2, plus some I had received by private email.  All of
> those comments were addressed, except for the observation that AODVv2
> needed to have a publicly available implementation for evaluation.  And,
> now, there is an NS-3 implementation being made ready for general release.

If I'm not mistaken, NS-3 is a discrete event simulator running in
userspace.  It is not clear to me at all how the experience of an
implementation in NS-3 carries over to implementations on real hardware.

I think that AODV(v2) is a nice protocol, and I have learnt a lot from it
when designing Babel.  However, one important property that I took into
account when designing Babel was implementability.

Charlie, could you please outline how you would envision an implementation
of AODVv2 running on a general pupose OS such as Linux?  What would need
to run in userspace, what would run in the kernel, and what would the
user/kernel interface look like?

Thanks,

-- Juliusz

_______________________________________________
manet mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]