[Babel-users] Babel Multicast routing

[Henning Rogge]

On Tuesday 01 March 2011 08:56:06 Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > the only problem with babel is that we do intensive use of mdns
> > ( zeroconf ) protocol that need multicast routing, olsrd dosn't
> > support fully multicast routing but have a plugin for mdns.
> 
> Thinking about that some further -- I'd like to hear more about what
> you're trying to do, since I'm not absolutely convinced that
> network-layer multicast is what you want to be using.  (An
> application-layer protocol might be more suitable, such as the flooding
> algorithm used by AHCP, or even something more efficient based on DHTs.)
If we want a sparse-multicast, we need support from the network layer because 
we need knowledge about the topology.

Henning Rogge

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