Hi All Because we briefly touched the subject of OLPCs meshing capabilities (and limitations) yesterday at the OLPC-CH meeting in Berne I'd like to point to a discussion which just came up on the developers mailing list of olsrd, a routing daemon widely used in community wireless networks like freifunk.net and openwireless.ch.
OLSR on OLPC? http://lists.olsr.org/pipermail/olsr-dev/2008-June/002081.html The big difference between OLSR and 802.11s is that the former operates on OSI layer 3 and the latter on layer 2. This means that OLSR sets up an appropriate routing table in each node while 802.11s tries to emulate a very big switched network where every node is seen as a one hop neighbor from each other. There is a new and very promising competitor to OLSR called B.A.T.M.A.N which was developed entirely by the wireless mesh networking community. It does support both, routed and switched networks. https://www.open-mesh.net/batman Little bit off topic but perhaps someone is interested in this kind of technical things and want to join me in exploring them ;) Liebi Grüess Lorenz _______________________________________________ OLPC-ch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland
