Babel - routing protocol

Babel — a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • Juliusz Chroboczek
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  • Operating Systems:
  • Linux
  • File Size:
  • 56KB

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Babel - routing protocol Description

Babel is a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with fast convergence properties. It is based on the ideas in DSDV, AODV and Cisco's EIGRP, but uses a variant of ETX Link cost estimation rather than a simple Hop-count metric. Babel has the following features: * it is a distance-vector protocol; * it is a proactive protocol, but with adaptative (reactive) features; * it senses link quality for computing route metrics using a variant of the ETX Algorithm; * it uses a feasibility condition that guarantees the absence of loops (the feasibility condition is taken from EIGRP and is somewhat less strict than the one in AODV); * it uses sequence numbers to make old routes feasible again (like DSDV and AODV, but unlike EIGRP); * it speeds up convergence by reactively requesting a new sequence number (like AODV, and to a certain extent EIGRP, but unlike DSDV); * it allows redistributed external routes to be injected into the routing domain at multiple points (like EIGRP, but unlike DSDV and AODV).


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