Re: [babel] info-model: link properties

[Juliusz Chroboczek <[e-mail]>]

> Change registry items to
> other: no link property information available
> tunnel: a tunneled interface over unknown physical link
> wired: 
> wireless:

That is not my understanding of what we agreed to.

I was under the impression that we had decided that the classification of
link types in wired/wireless/tunnel is an internal implementation detail
of babeld, and that what we wanted to export were the underlying
properties, which are:

  - link cost estimator (ETX or 2-out-of-3);
  - use split-horizon (boolean);
  - use RTT (boolean).

wired means 2-out-of-3, split-horizon, no RTT.
wireless means ETX, no split-horizon, no RTT.
tunnel means 2-out-of-3, split-horizon, RTT.

It is clear to me that the interface type abstration is useful for the
user, who doesn't want to deal with technical details such as whether the
split-horizon optimisation is allowable on a given link type, but it's
difficult to export from the management interface.

-- Juliusz