This used to mean "parasitic", but has been removed a long time ago.

The netlink API doesn't natively support atomic route changes.  We used
to attempt to install the new route before removing the old route, but that
would fail in mysterious ways on non-multipath kernels, leading to "stuck"
routes.  Avoid the pain, just take the native approach.

This caused empty lines to cause parse failures.

Reported by Antoine Beaupré.

This fixes an issue where find_best_route could very occasionally
return a route that was not feasible.

This is needed for the stability aware code.

This is brittle, and prevents me from making route selection smarter.

This is the functionality described in Appendix C of RFC 6126.  Its
main purpose is to avoid keeping a full source table, which makes it
possible to implement a subset of Babel in just a few hundred lines of
code.  However, the code for maintaining the source table is already
there, and a parasitic implementation can be simulated using filtering
-- so it makes little sense to keep the functionality.

Thanks to Denis Ovsienko.

FreeBSD system headers have their own "struct route", which made it
impossible to compile babeld. Switching babeld to "struct babel_route".

We now limit resends to just 3 copies, both for requests and updates,
since there are enough mechanisms in the protocol to handle packet
loss.

They are no longer used except for configuring interfaces with no
explicit configuration.

This feature was little used, and complicated the code somewhat.

Nodes send wildcard requests at boot, which allows them to acquire
a full routing table in a timely manner.  Unfortunately, this causes
an update storm when a large network boots.