The early goals of Active Networking (AN) were to increase the pace of network evolution and to facilitate application specific protocols. Our aim is to demonstrate that for a specific application domain, Ad Hoc network routing, these goals have been substantially met. We argue that Ad Hoc networking is a domain that is well suited for this demonstration, due to its needs for both evolution and adaptation. We support our claim by building a series of Ad Hoc routing protocols, based on both DSR

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... nd AODV, that demonstrate heavyweight evolution, lightweight evolution, and routing adaptation. We based our design and implementation on our Mobile Active Networking Environment (MANE). MANE is a direct descendant of PLAN/PLANet and, as such, supports both Active Packets and Active Extensions as programmability mechanisms, thus giving us maximum flexibility in our demonstrations.