Description-of-Link-State-Routing-Protocol

Graphical Representation of how a link state routing protocol works. - using Java Applets!

<---> Please find the screenchot.png to get a view of the final output. The source files are at src/mypack. Run the Graph.java first. <--->

Working procedure:

1. Leave start routing unchecked .
2. A mouse click creates a node. Click many nodes quite far from each other, they will be automatically named starting from A.
3. For connecting nodes , use mouse-drag between two nodes. After the mouse-drag, the distance between the two nodes will be displayed.
4. Once all edges are created, click the check-box "Start routing". The "LINK STATE FORWARDING TABLES WILL BE DISPLAYED ON THE RIGHT"
5. Now mouse click on the source node first and then the destination node .
6. Click "SEND DATA" to view the packet transfer using "Link state routing" technique

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