> OpenWRT and OLSR or BATMAN on a Routerboard or Ubiquiti CPU platform > may be ideal, but I need to learn more about OLSR and BATMAN in > practice. BATMAN seems to be a distance-vector algorithm, like, uh, > DECNET 3 and 4 and IGRP, while OLSR is link state, like OSPF. I am > partial to link state. The BATMAN guys note that it doesn't scale > well, especially >100 nodes, but I'm not looking to have that many in > a domain. Distance vectors are fast to learn new routes but have > problems with dropped routes.
Although TRILL is being developed on networks with fiber-rich diets, it might be good to a wireless mesh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRILL_%28computing%29 In essence, Layer 2 link-state that is good for meshes. The question if link-state or distance-vector is more appropriate to a wireless mesh is something yet to be defined, but you said you are partial to link-state, so TRILL will probably thrill you. Rubens -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
