Re: Question about DV routing and link cost?

[Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, K Sun wrote:

> Hello,
>     Thank you for your reply. Actually, I have changed the link cost. 
> Following instruction from mail list, I change the preference_ of DV 
> routing. It works.

What version of ns are you running?

L.

 
>      Anyway, thank you!
> 
>      Best Regards,
>              Sun Kai
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:03:50 +0000 (GMT) Lloyd Wood 
> <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, K Sun wrote:
> > 
> > >     I would like to see DV routing dynamically alters routes between 
> > > deferent pairs of nodes. In my case, I would not like to 
> > > disable any links. I hope DV rouing can re-compute the routes between 
> > > each pair of nodes after I change the costs of links. It seems there is 
> > > no expected effect appearing. The original routes have been kept.
> > 
> > http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/archive/ns-users/9804/0053.html
> > 
> > Kannan says:
> > 
> >   Currently, there is no mechanism to dynamically assign costs to the
> >   links. When a node initialises its routing, it uses the cost of the
> >   link as the metric. 
> > 
> > and you should find the rest of that thread very informative.
> > 
> > L.
> > 
> > I would like to see DV routing not go the way of PIM-SM and snoop.

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