Re: [ns] routing protocol using lookup

[George Riley <riley@cc.gatech.edu>]

See my contributed "Nix-Vector" routing method:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/compass/nvns


I think it's more or less what you are looking for.

George

					
			-George F. Riley (riley@cc.gatech.edu)

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, David Schenk wrote:

> Dear users,
> I'm writing a new routing protocol based on a concept of "on demand
> routing decision". I have read chapter 23 : 'Unicast Routing'.
> 
> Now, the protocol works but it must update routing tables in 'ns' by
> using main simulation's scheduler.
> 
> I would like to use a modified instance procedure lookup{} from rtObject
> 
> (in ns-2.1b7/tcl/rtglib/route-proto.tcl) in order to compute the best
> route on
> this procedure call. I don't want to use routing tables anymore.
> 
> When I debugged rtObject class (using DV, LS and default routing
> policies), I saw that the lookup procedure was never called, why ?
> 
> Where and when is requested a best route to reach a destination ? What
> does this request ?
> 
> Best regards !
> 
> Thanks,
>                    David Schenk
> 
>