Re: [homenet] Updates to Homenet Architecture Principles doc

[Acee Lindem <[e-mail]>]

On Jun 16, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[e-mail]> wrote:

>>>   path selection in a homenet needs to be more refined than minimising
>>>   hop count.
> 
>> {BABEL, EIGRP, full IS-IS .....} might be preferred over {OSPFv3....}
> 
> To be fair, there's nothing *in principle* preventing an implementation of
> OSPFv3 from encoding interesting stuff within its metric -- there's 16
> bits to play with, if memory serves, just like in Babel.  Whether it's
> actually doable in practice would require somebody actually doing the work
> and trying it out.

There is actually an implementation using a composite metric for OSPFv3 MANET. It was never standardized. 

Thanks,
Acee 


> 
> Just like SADR.  (ducks)
> 
> -- Juliusz
> 
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