Bug 402

Summary:	IPv4 GlobalRouting does not handle /32 interfaces
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tom Henderson <tomh>
Component:	routing	Assignee:	Tom Henderson <tomh>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	craigdo, ns-bugs
Priority:	P3
Version:	ns-3-dev
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Tom Henderson 2008-11-07 10:27:06 UTC

Fails with:
Ipv4::GetIfIndexByAddress failed

This should be later tested as part of routing refactoring.

Comment 1 Tom Henderson 2008-11-17 17:33:41 UTC

Lowering priority (aim for 3.4 release).  Not expected to be an important use case for the moment.

Comment 2 Tom Henderson 2008-12-08 09:32:55 UTC

Use case:

/32 netmasks are sometimes used in MANET routing over WiFi; each node gets a /32 address.  However, /32 netmasks are illegal for broadcast links in OSPF (which is what global routing is patterned after).

If global routing is run over such a configured MANET today, it will fail.  This is because the WifiNetDevice is identified as a broadcast interface.

The solution seems to be to add support for point-to-multipoint logic in global routing (which can handle the /32), and to somehow flag that the WifiNetDevice is not a typical broadcast link so that global routing can pick this up and treat it accordingly.

Comment 3 Tom Henderson 2009-06-30 00:54:49 UTC

not sure this is a valid report anymore; examples/global-routing-slash32.cc has been checked in in the meantime