[Babel-users] Verify ETX route metric

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Tue May 24 16:04:28 UTC 2016


> We're concerned about this mostly because a node could advertise a low metric,
> attract traffic, and then charge for it. One avenue we've thought about is to
> run the link cost calculation end to end across the entire route to a given
> destination. This could give a "second opinion" of what the metric to that
> destination should be. This could be used as a way to detect nodes that are
> cheating.

Interesting idea.  No, I have no idea how this could be done.

-- Juliusz



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