[Babel-users] Specify router-id explicitly

Henning Rogge hrogge at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 09:12:58 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>>> Please do not make this option available in the OpenWRT config file.
>
>> Unfortunately hnetd <> babeld communication occurs solely through
>> configuration file (Fragment).
>
> Ah merde.
>
>> Therefore at least for those purposes it has to be there, if we were to
>> use it.
>
> Okay, then I'll make it into a config file option, and hope that people
> aren't that stupid.

I know what you mean... olsrd (v1) has been plagued by stupid config
files for years because of bad defaults.

But you cannot prevent people from doing stupid things, some will just
add another layer of hacks to get around your barrier.

Henning



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