On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:00 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > Hey, > > I just looked through the archives but didn't find anything about the > software, which is going to be used to create the wireless-mesh. > > Maybe 802.11s would have been a good start, but doesn't seem to be ready yet > ...
No, 802.11s isn't really going to be ready until next year even? > There are protocols like AODV and OLSR, but I'd personally prefer something > more standard. Something like OSPF. Last I knew Michail was talking about AODV, I'm unsure if that's changed. I'd like to stress here that since OLPC is going to be deploying quite a few systems, we can't rely on an immature, untested, unproven mesh routing protocol. Dan > OSPF isn't suitable for wireless meshes currently, but there are some > efforts to extend OSPF v3 [1] in a way, so it can be used in MANETs. > > ANother interesting document can be found here [4], which gives some > informations about the behaviour of MANETs with about 100 nodes. > > There is already a patch (draft)[2] for quagga[3] and a simulator 2] > available. > > fabian > > -- > [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ogier-ospf-mdr-position-00.txt > [2] http://hipserver.mct.phantomworks.org/ietf/ospf/ > [3] http://www.quagga.net/ > [4] > http://hipserver.mct.phantomworks.org/ietf/ospf/reports/Boeing-D950-10897-1.pdf > -- olpc-software mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software
