[ASL] ASL questions

[Daniel L. <da...@st...>]

Hello,


I have a couple of questions about ASL.


1. I was under the impression that when the routing daemon calls the
route_request_done() function with the destination IP that cannot be found,
the program trying to communicate with that IP should get "No route to host"
and should fail. I had a routing daemon running that tried to establish a
route to a host that an SSH client was trying to access. I have the routing
daemon set to send a route request message 4 times, which it does, and when
it fails to find a route (which is what should happen considering no other
routing daemon is listening for its messages), it calls route_request_done()
and that returns with no errors. At this point I would expect the SSH client
to fail in its connection attempt but it does not. A short time later the
daemon is trying to find the route again. Is this behavior expected?

2. I have my routing daemon operate on an interface with an IP of 10.1.1.2.
When I have a client program try to access say 10.1.1.3 or anything in the
10.x.x.x space, the routing daemon does not get a notification that it has
to look for a route. However, when I have a client program try to access
11.2.4.2 or something like that, the routing daemon gets a message from ASL
to look for a route to that host. Is this behavior what is desired in most
circumstances? It doesn't seem so to me. I thought by adding the deferred
route when the routing daemon is initialized (as is done in Binita's AODV)
would cause connections to any address to not be completed until the routing
daemon found a route.

A more general question that relates to question 2 above is what techniques
are people using to test their adhoc routing daemons?


Thanks for any input/clarification.

--Dan