Timeline for How does a router know it's received an OLSR message?
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 20:14 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | As I explained, control packets for a router are sent to the destination address of the router. Routing protocols do not route packets. A router uses its routing table to route packets. Routing protocols are one way to populate a routing table because they allow routers to exchange routing information. The other two ways are directly connected networks are automatically placed in a routing table, and statically configured routes are manually placed in a routing table. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 20:09 | comment | added | Jordan Mackie | In for example, an ad hoc network however, using something like AODV, is this still the case? Since every node becomes a router, surely it needs some way to differentiate between data packets to forward and control packets to interpret and possibly forward? | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 19:55 | history | answered | Ron Maupin♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |