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Babel is based on the ideas in Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing (DSDV), Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV), and Cisco's Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), but it uses a variant of Expected Transmission Count (ETX) link cost estimation rather than a simple hop-count metric. It employs several techniques to ensure the absence of routing pathologies, such as routing loops. | Babel is based on the ideas in Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing (DSDV), Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV), and Cisco's Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), but it uses a variant of Expected Transmission Count (ETX) link cost estimation rather than a simple hop-count metric. It employs several techniques to ensure the absence of routing pathologies, such as routing loops. | ||
Babel operates on IPv4 and IPv6 networks. It has been reported to be a robust protocol and to have fast convergence properties | Babel operates on IPv4 and IPv6 networks. It has been reported to be a robust protocol and to have fast convergence properties. | ||
Two implementations of Babel are freely available: the standalone sample implementation, and an experimental implementation integrated in Quagga. | |||
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_%28protocol%29| Wikipedia Article]] | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_%28protocol%29| Wikipedia Article]] | ||
[[Category:Technologies]] | [[Category:Technologies]] | ||
Latest revision as of 04:18, 2 April 2012
From wikipedia:
The Babel routing protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol for Internet Protocol packet-switched networks that is designed to be robust and efficient on both wireless mesh networks and wired networks.
Babel is based on the ideas in Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing (DSDV), Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV), and Cisco's Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), but it uses a variant of Expected Transmission Count (ETX) link cost estimation rather than a simple hop-count metric. It employs several techniques to ensure the absence of routing pathologies, such as routing loops.
Babel operates on IPv4 and IPv6 networks. It has been reported to be a robust protocol and to have fast convergence properties.
Two implementations of Babel are freely available: the standalone sample implementation, and an experimental implementation integrated in Quagga.