[manet] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: draft-dearlove-manet-olsrv2-responsive-03

[Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>]

+1

AB

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Just speaking as a WG participant, RFC 7181 seems pretty big and doing a
> bis of it  like a big effort that would take some time. Meanwhile,
> draft-dearlove-manet-olsrv2-responsive seems pretty short and simple. I
> think the WG should consider the "responsive" draft separately. If it is
> approved and if an RFC 7181bis project was started, the changes in the
> "responsive" draft could be rolled into a 7181bis.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:30 AM Christopher Dearlove <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> I was very much discussing the 7181/ OLSRv2 situation, complicated by the
>> splitting off of NHDP/6130. New protocols should be in a number of pieces
>> appropriate to their design. This is often one, but not always.
>>
>> On 20 Mar 2026, at 14:16, Templin (US), Fred L <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
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>> 
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>> Hi Abdussalam,
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>> >> https://github.com/OLSR/OONF
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>> >> yes this is it
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>>
>> I can now confirm that this builds correctly and seems to do the right
>> things when run over simple networks. I will work on testing over more
>> complex networks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you - Fred
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2026 8:43 PM
>> *To:* Templin (US), Fred L <[e-mail]>
>> *Cc:* Christopher Dearlove <[e-mail]>;
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>> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] [manet] Re:
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>> Hi Fred,
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>>
>> and thanks,
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>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM Templin (US), Fred L <
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> Abdussalam,
>>
>>
>>
>> >> I tried to get an implementation that was from the open source
>> community but that implementation did not work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Was this the one you were looking at:
>>
>>
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>> https://github.com/OLSR/OONF
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>>
>>
>> yes this is it
>>
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>>
>> The most recent tag from that distribution is v0.15.1 tagged on March 19,
>> 2018. I am unable to build from that tag due to compile time errors which
>> seems a poor state for it to be left in. If there is another
>> publicly-available OLSRv2 reference implementation I would be interested to
>> hear about it, because it is not a good look for OLSRv2 to not have a
>> publicly-available reference implementation **that works** for
>> evaluation and experimentation by the community.
>>
>>
>>
>> Meanwhile, other MANET routing protocols such as OSPF-MDR in quagga and
>> Babel in free range routing are openly available for experimentation and
>> even semi-production service in a form that works. There is also
>> B.A.T.M.A.N which I guess is becoming known as a functional mesh networking
>> service. There are probably others too which I would be interested to hear
>> about. What has been your experience?
>>
>>
>>
>> yes agree,  it is important that we in IETF MANET WG look into the
>> implementation of both OLSRv2 and AODVv2, as these were the first routing
>> that was needed by this WG, however, there was in past meeting interest by
>> our WG that we use the implementations to check its stability and
>> successfulness.
>>
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> AB
>>
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