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

Hi Juliusz,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
> Sent: maandag 30 juni 2025 21:31
> To: Abdussalam Baryun <[email protected]>
> Cc: manet <[email protected]>
> Subject: [manet] Re: A partial response to <Re: Review draft-perkins-manet-
> aodvv2-05>
>
> > Do you mean that AODVv2 is not implementable,
>
> I never said that.
>
> Henning Rogge has a lot of experience implementing routing protocols.
> Henning Rogge does not know how to implement AODVv2 without resorting
> to a kernel module or using the default-to-self hack.

For the benefit of the uninitiated (myself, possibly others), can you explain 
what the default-to-self hack is? (Or provide a reference).

>
> I have a moderate amount of experience implementing routing protocols.
> I have thought about the problem very hard, I have questioned both Henning
> and Charlie, and I still do not know how to implement AODVv2 without
> resorting to a kernel module or using the default-to-self hack.
>
> Hence, there are at least two people awith experience implementing routing
> protocols who do not know how to implement AODVv2 without resorting to a
> kernel module or using the default-to-self hack.
>
> This is not an opinion.  This is a fact.

Fred Templin beat me to it, but yeah: For Linux, XDP / eBPF might provide us 
with a new avenue to handle this. Worth looking into, I think, although 
probably still not trivial.

Thanks,
Ronald

>
> -- Juliusz
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