[Babel-users] Babel Protocol Questions

[Nick]

Hi,

I am just reading again the babel RFC. In particular, the topic 
"Feasibility Conditions" is very interesting. However, I don't 
understand why [0]:

> Babel uses a slightly more refined feasibility condition, derived from 
> EIGRP [DUAL <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8966#ref-DUAL>].
>
Why does babel not use DSDV-feasibility? Is it because I can manage 
multiple routes in case of link failures?


Also the "Requests" part is interesting [0]. I know that in DSDV a 
direct neighbor may advertise link failures with an uneven sequence 
number (+1). Babel uses an explicit request to the source. What does the 
forward of this request look like? Does it mean that babel sends on all 
possible links that request if it can reach the source via that link? So 
it is a bit like a "selected flood"?


I would be happy if someone could help me understand the design 
decisions in more detail.


[0] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8966#section-2.4

[1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8966#section-2.6