Frottle was written by one of the guys here in Perth for the WaFreeNet and is utilised on Hills Hub. Although Ive not used it personally, speaking to those who do, its token type arrangement ensures a good share of bandwidth regardless of signal strength (within reason) and load. BGP is the routing protocol of choice for the network btw and APs are linked via point to point radios.
</rant> GregMps: thanks to the developers of voyage for a great distro, I'm running it on 2 WRAPs and couldn't be happier!
Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 10:02 +0800, Punky Tse wrote: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.I will try it from meshnode.org. I don't have a huge test network to try it on but we will see. I see meshnode.org is based on voyage. Is anybody on this list that is assoitated with them to give hints?Andrew, what is your experience about frottle?Frottle is halfway working. I say half-way because it installs on voyage fine and I have gotten it to work on the test bench but so far have been unable to make the link in the real world. This is our first 5.xGhz link with Voyage and the learning curve has been fairly steep. We have tried twice to get the link up and running (it is a five mile shot) but have not gotten it linked up. Hopefully we will get this link made soon so I can really test frottle (as we can then add the other clients). Thanks for the frottle package it installed perfectly for me.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'tfigure 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 pathAssuming 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 likeIt 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 getThe 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 layoutI'm not sure what you mean by this - could you elaborate? HTH,------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux_______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
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