Re: [Autoconf] RFC 5889 (Was: Call for comments to a new AUTOCONF charter proposal)

[Henning Rogge <[e-mail]>]

On Fri July 23 2010 09:43:02 Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> > if each of the MRs use a wireless interface, the linklocals WILL BE
> > VISIBLE outside their direct link.
> 
> Well, the link local addresses will not be visible outside their direct
> link, because the different links are on different ESSIDs and moreover
> on different channels.  Using wireshark on IP packets on these different
> links shows that the link local addressess are not visible from one link
> to another.
This would only work with preplanned links, because otherwise you would have 
trouble to do neighborhood detection. How do you detect new nodes coming into 
range if they cannot announce their presence with a broadcast, because they 
got no unique ESSID to their neighbors ?

MANET routing protocols are specially designed for the case of unplanned 
networks. You have a single shared medium which the routing protocol use for 
it's work, to do neighborhood/link detection.
If you push this down to link layer, you just move the whole problem down one 
layer, because you need unique addresses on the link layer to do neighborhood 
detection and link establishment.

If you already have a unique link-layer address, just use it to generate a 
unique linklocal-IP.

Henning Rogge

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