On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:46 +0200, Sven-Ola Tuecke wrote:
[....]
> I'm also overdue giving feedback - sometimes too busy. But I am

Welcome in my world;-)

> always reading your posts. Here are some points from my side.

Anyway thank you for reviewing/looking at it/testing (and - of course -
sending the results from the jury in Berlin;-).

> * I've (re-)added my special stuff to the current CVS. Which
>   shrinks my list of patches to a very small set now.  None of

Good;-)

>   that patches are meant for the current release. As ususal:

OK, no problem for me (just mention it so that I do not accidentally
throw it in;-).

[... patch feedback later - I have to look into the source ...]
> * Done some testing on olsrd-current and found nothing to
>   complain about. CPU saving is fine (~10-30% on my
>   slowest device, a 125 Mhz Broadcom/MIPS box). Really good.

I'm (almost) innocent - we must blame Hannes for this.

> * Got a one-time oops while terminating olsrd via Ctrl-C. But I
>   was not able to repeat that.

Yes, that part (termination/restart handling) is somewhat ugly too since
way too much happens in the signal handler (as someone - sorry, I forgot
the name and I'm too lazy to look it up - (IMHO correctly) reported
months ago. Alas, no patch attached there.).

> * My overall perception: I vote for publishing that as olsrd-0.5.4.
> 
> To answer Aarons question about tunneling and NAT. You vienna guys are very 
> special in this IMO. The majority of OLSR/Freifunk meshes uses NAT gateways 

Maybe.

> via default routes. Tunneling gateways or globally-valid-IP meshes are not 
> too wide spread. Partly my fault, because that's the standard plug-and-pray 
> technique offered with the Freifunk Firmware <ggg>.

The FunkFeuer net in Vienna is not the reason for my opinion to have
such features in plugins. It is IMHO basically not in the scope of an IP
routing daemon to work around administrative problems/situations - at
least not in the core.
Actually wouldn't it be a solution for FreiFunk-type networks if all
NAT-ting hosts have (e.g., at least) unencrypted (but possibly
authenticated) openvpn tunnels to all other NAT-ting hosts?

	Bernd
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