I see that meshnode (http://www.meshnode.org/downloads/deb-pkgs/) has
the latest version 0.4.10. But if there are source deb, I can build and
put to voyage apt repository as well.
Andrew, what is your experience about frottle?
Keegan, I know you have been asking olsrd 0.4.10 in official debian
repository. May I know the current status about it? Otherwise, we may
consider uploading the package by ourself. I also have frottle package
in voyage repository for uploading too. I know one debian developer,
who is participating wireless community in Greece may help us in the
process.
Punky
Keegan Quinn wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:21:13PM -0700, Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote:
Does anybody have a good link or two to learn about meshing with olsr?
Unfortunately, I never could find a good practical overview of using OLSR.
Maybe I can answer some of your questions, though.
I want to learn about it and try it out with a test link but I can't
figure out where to start.
Some questions I have:
* Do all nodes need two radios or just one?
I've only ever used OLSR with a single radio. I suppose you could use two
if you wanted a node to route between 802.11a and 802.11g, for example -
a radio per band.
* Can I have nodes that have a backhaul type link and have the other
nodes choose that one as the best path
Assuming you mean best path to the Internet: you can have your 'backhaul'
node advertise an HNA route for that, or use the dyn_gw plugin to have the
routing daemon automatically advertise the default route if one is available.
* What would my /etc/network/interfaces file look like
It will depend on your wireless hardware, but eg.:
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
wireless_mode ad-hoc
wireless_essid mesh
wireless_channel 6
* How big can it get
The base package is 324KiB on-disk installed, the plugins 209KiB. In virtual
memory, my quiet little olsrd running on my notebook is using just a hair
under 2MiB.
* Dose performance decrease the more hops you have? What is the limit on
that?
I haven't had an opportunity to test with a significant multi-hop network,
so I can't provide any information here.
* Do any packages exist for voyage?
I believe the backports I did for sarge should work on voyage:
deb http://cornerstone.personaltelco.net/debian ptp sarge
I'd be interested to hear the results. Currently, these packages are
0.4.9, while the latest version is 0.4.10; I hope to have them updated
soon.
* What is an example of a good topology layout
I'm not sure what you mean by this - could you elaborate?
HTH,
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