Re: [manet] AB#2 (olsrv2-multitopology): Adding section for packets

[Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>]

Hi Henning,

On Thursday, September 18, 2014, Henning Rogge wrote:

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> I don't think the MT-OLSRv2 draft restricts the mechanism described in
> section 13.2 of RFC 7181 in any way. It only defines extensions of the
> existing TC messages. It does not even change any part of the flooding
> process, including the flooding MPR set.


I think it should do, to ensure (with its conditions) that any packet
have combine messages of only same topology. RFC7181 section 13.2 does not
ensure that because it is not MT protocol. So it will be good to refer to
that in one section in this draft of MT.


> Could you maybe specify where you see the need of additional
> restrictions/conditions and what kind of messages you want to combine
> among different topologies?


IMO Conditions for MT are related to: metrics, route maintenance, and
packets. The draft tries to use assumptions but that can not be enough for
me without having analysis presented in IETF. IMHO, the dynamic topologies
can not have its control-messages mixed in one same packet. The draft
restricts that each topology has one-metric-type, but does not restrict
its control-packets, that is why we need a section about packets to
fix that. I will review the related drafts again to write down the full
conditions for this draft.

Regards,

AB