On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 16:18 +0100, elektra wrote:
[...]
> first of all: Please correct me if I'm wrong in anything stated here.
> 
> I wanted an up to date version of olsrd to build into a upcoming release 
> of Meshlinux. I learned recently that many important patches didn't make 
> it into CVS yet.  Sven-Ola has a collection of patches at 
> http://212.222.128.68/sven-ola/nylon/packages/olsrd/files/

I somewhat started (well, at least the first few ones up to
olsrd-bmf-fixes.patch) applying these to CVS-HEAD (the mentioned ones
apply cleanly to the stable olsr_04 branch so far). The simpler ones
apply and Bmf is basically already there.
The more problematic ones so far are olsrd-nameservice+services.patch
and olsrd-bmf-fixes.patch which both have lots of rejects AFAICS and the
first few were of the non-trivial ones.
So I postponed them for the moment since I need to understand what they
do (and this implies that I understand what all of the patched plugins
do and how. Care to enlighten me?).

I wonder if it would be less work to apply them to olrd_04 (in one big
rush) and join via CVS into CVS-HEAD.

> This code is tested in Berlin and many other cities that have meshes 
> working 24/7 since it is included in the Freifunk Firmware. A vague 
> estimation claims that between 1000 and 5000 people use the mesh in 
> Berlin every day for their communication.  The Berlin Freifunk mesh has 
> 400+ nodes - running mostly on of-the-shelf hardware for 40-60 Euro per 
> unit. There is no central administration - individual people 
> administrate their own routers. This is the situation here - other 
> Freifunk networks (Leipzig for example) are closing up to this figures.

Vienna/FunkFuer as well BTW.
So I certainly consider your version/patch set rock solid.

[....]
> I don't want to start a new development branch/fork/whatever of olsrd. 

ACK.

> Or become a maintainer. I want to avoid doing unnecessary work or 

*eg* Not? ;-)

> pissing anyone off. I just want to have a URL with up-to-date code that 
> I can point people to. And I - finally - want to get rid of RFC3626 in 

	Bernd
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