+/**
+ * \brief Find a route toward another host
+ *
+ * \param dest [IN] where to
+ * \param links [OUT] where to store the list of links (must exist, cannot be nullptr).
+ * \param latency [OUT] where to store the latency experienced on the path (or nullptr if not interested)
+ * It is the caller responsibility to initialize latency to 0 (we add to provided route)
+ * \pre links!=nullptr
+ *
+ * walk through the routing components tree and find a route between hosts
+ * by calling each "get_route" function in each routing component.
+ */
+void Host::routeTo(Host* dest, std::vector<Link*>* links, double* latency)
+{
+ std::vector<surf::LinkImpl*> linkImpls;
+ this->routeTo(dest, &linkImpls, latency);
+ for (surf::LinkImpl* l : linkImpls)
+ links->push_back(&l->piface_);
+}