On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 17:48 -0800, 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. > Thanks for the reply Keegan, see some comments/questions inline: <snip> > > * 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. >
HNA routing is part of the olsr program correct? <snip> > > * 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. > I am sorry that question should read how many people can the mesh contain. It seems to me that there would be a real practical limit to the amount of clients that could be apart of the mesh. > > * 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. Still want an answer to this one if anybody else has one. > > * What is an example of a good topology layout > > I'm not sure what you mean by this - could you elaborate? > This kind of ties into the backhaul question above. After reading your email I think a hybrid network layout would be best (please correct me if I am wrong). If you have a central point to distribute internet from you link to that from as many places as you can. Then you use the mesh type network to fill in the dead spots. > HTH, Thanks, that helped out very much! _ /-\ ndrew _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
