Re: [Autoconf] what's a router

[Henning Rogge <[e-mail]>]

On Thu August 5 2010 11:59:54 Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> > That make no sense for a MANET, most MANET routers have only a single
> > interface.
> 
> Well, are MANET routers 'routers' at all?
Yes.
 
> Does a MANET router execute the longest-prefix match algorithm?
Most MANET routers I'm working with are linux systems... mostly on embedded 
hardware. So the answer is "yes" for the systems I know.
 
> 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?
Yes... difficult choice between the localhost interface and the only physical 
outgoing interface wlan0.

> > 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.
Maybe you should check your facts before you post stuff like this.

I just opened the console of my android smartphone (linux based !) and I was 
not surprised that there are no include files on the device.

Include files are necessary to COMPILE code... not to run it. They are a waste 
of space on embedded linux systems, because you don't have a compiler on them. 
Noone creating a sane distribution for an embedded linux system would add an 
include file to it.

I would bet that neither a windows smartphone, nor a webos palm one, nor an 
iphone has any include header files on it's flash. Unless the user installed 
it afterwards.

Henning Rogge
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