How to Install and Uninstall babeld Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "babeld" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install babeld on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                babeld
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "babeld" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall babeld on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                babeld
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the babeld package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: babeld
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.9.1-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Stéphane Glondu
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 160
Depends: lsb-base, libc6 (>= 2.17)
Suggests: ahcpd
Filename: pool/universe/b/babeld/babeld_1.9.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 67412
MD5sum: 6c9757149eb00f7d3ca64f9bb678786f
SHA1: e83b30ab371511afd8c5b16683ff03da9d9cb783
SHA256: 9100c5d83a61e9eb52049bc16ab671ad2d84358078681f27e914567426503440
SHA512: c5ea58802a2166c07e88860bb96ad7758a2b1d2944de5fd3e7d3f3fbf788256bcf95af6db12244fffa0196ee6624d8ce9521739a5da94550ad3ac5b40dbd0f1e
Homepage: http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/babel/
Description-en: loop-free distance-vector routing protocol
Babel is a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with
fast convergence properties, described in RFC 6126. It was designed
to be robust and efficient on both wireless mesh networks and
classical wired networks. Babel has extremely modest memory and CPU
requirements. Unlike most routing protocols, which route either IPv4
or IPv6 but not both at the same time, Babel is a hybrid IPv6 and
IPv4 protocol: a single update packet can carry both IPv6 and IPv4
routes (this is similar to how multi-protocol BGP works). This makes
Babel particularly efficient on dual (IPv6 and IPv4) networks. This
implementation also includes a radio frequency-aware variant of
Babel.
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Babel has the following features:
* it is a distance-vector protocol;
* it is a proactive protocol, but with adaptative (reactive)
features;
* it senses link quality for computing route metrics using a variant
of the ETX algorithm;
* it uses a feasibility condition that guarantees the absence of
loops (the feasibility condition is taken from EIGRP and is
somewhat less strict than the one in AODV);
* it uses sequence numbers to make old routes feasible again (like
DSDV and AODV, but unlike EIGRP);
* it speeds up convergence by reactively requesting a new sequence
number (like AODV, and to a certain extent EIGRP, but unlike
DSDV);
* it allows redistributed external routes to be injected into the
routing domain at multiple points (like EIGRP, but unlike DSDV and
AODV).
Description-md5: c08401daeb1213eeb6a042ed2075fd1e