[Babel-users] Babel todo list [was: RTT-based metric merged]

[Denis Ovsienko]

20.05.2014, 16:56, "Juliusz Chroboczek" <jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>:
>>  Now that the Timestamp TLV encoding is stable it may be a good time
>>  to finish the tcpdump decoder for it:
>>  https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/pull/371
>
> Yeah.  Here's my current todo list:
>
>   1.  publish extension draft as RFC;
>
>   2a. publish RTT draft (as draft);
>   2b. tcpdump for RTT;
>   2c. merge RTT into Quagga-RE;
>
>   3a. merge source-specific;
>   3b. write source-specific draft;
>   3c. add source-specific to tcpdump.
>
> The above are the things for which the plan is clear.  There are to
> issues that are less clear right now.
>
>   I.   Source-specific in Quagga-RE?  Olden Fabre will be working on
>        source-specific routing in Quagga this summer, if he's successful
>        merging babels should be trivial.
>
>   II.  Merge Denis' MAC-based authentication into babeld, or make an
>        independent implementation?
>
>   III. Change the local interface to allow run-time reconfiguration?
>        The nexedi people are clamouring for a way to gracefully shut
>        down a tunnel.  (I'm trying to tell them that they're doing it
>        wrong -- they should be downing the interface, which would do
>        the right thing automatically -- but that's apparently inconve-
>        nient for them.)
>
> -- Juliusz

There seems to be sense in doing tcpdump bits first as that not just requires less new code but adds some cross-checking of the encoding.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko