Re: [Autoconf] what's a router

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Thu, 05 August 2010 09:59 UTC

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Le 05/08/2010 11:42, Henning Rogge a écrit :
> On Thu August 5 2010 11:39:41 Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>> Le 05/08/2010 11:33, Henning Rogge a écrit :
>>> On Thu August 5 2010 11:21:37 Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>>>> To me a router is a device and its software doing this: - has
>>>> a routing table called such. - does longest-prefix match
>>>> algorithm to search in it.  This operation
>>>>
>>>> is not specified (no RFC) but it is there everywhere in every
>>>> router, thanks BSD.
>>>>
>>>> - includes that route.h I believe as CP said. - has multiple
>>>> interfaces.
>>> one of them or all of them ?
>>
>> Right, both of them, IMHO.
> That make no sense for a MANET, most MANET routers have only a single
> interface.

Well, are MANET routers 'routers' at all?

Does a MANET router execute the longest-prefix match algorithm?

Does a MANET router select an output interface depending on the result
of that agorithm?  Or is it just doing it with always the same result?

> And you don't need any header files like route.h on a router, just
> on your development system. I don't think you will find many
> embedded routers (DSL, MANET, ...) with header files on them.

WEll... the /usr/include stuff is there everywhere in the deployed
routers running binaries.  E.g. linux phones.  I think a device that
boots a kernel has a file system and that should have a /usr/include.

Alex

>
> Henning Rogge