[Babel-users] Updates for TinyOS

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.jussieu.fr
Thu Jul 14 15:37:16 UTC 2011


> According to Section 3.7 I assume that Update TLV could also be
> BROADCAST to neighbours?

Yes.  Updates are always multicast (broadcast in your simplified
implementation.)

(They could in principle be unicast in some particular cases, but the
current implementation doesn't do that.)

> Each node which receives an Update will store the announced metric in
> neighbour.refmetric and the metric (refmetric + cost) that it will
> announce to further nodes will be stored in neighbour.metric, right?

Yes.

-- Juliusz




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