update some stale routing documentation

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Tom Henderson
2011-09-26 06:20:35 -07:00
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@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ of that interface to obtain a "link state advertisement (LSA)" for the router.
Link State Advertisements are used in OSPF routing, and we follow their
formatting.
It is important to note that all of these computations are done before
packets are flowing in the network. In particular, there are no
overhead or control packets being exchanged when using this implementation.
Instead, this global route manager just walks the list of nodes to
build the necessary information and configure each node's routing table.
The GlobalRouteManager populates a link state database with LSAs gathered from
the entire topology. Then, for each router in the topology, the
GlobalRouteManager executes the OSPF shortest path first (SPF) computation on
@@ -175,7 +181,12 @@ Therefore, we think that enabling these other link types will be more
straightforward now that the underlying OSPF SPF framework is in place.
Presently, we can handle IPv4 point-to-point, numbered links, as well as shared
broadcast (CSMA) links, and we do not do equal-cost multipath.
broadcast (CSMA) links. Equal-cost multipath is also supported. Although
wireless link types are supported by the implementation, note that due
to the nature of this implementation, any channel effects will not be
considered and the routing tables will assume that every node on the
same shared channel is reachable from every other node (i.e. it will
be treated like a broadcast CSMA link).
The GlobalRouteManager first walks the list of nodes and aggregates
a GlobalRouter interface to each one as follows:::