<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@guardianproject.info" target="_blank">hans@guardianproject.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
On 06/28/2012 12:28 AM, Markus Kittenberger wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <<br>
> <a href="mailto:hans@guardianproject.info">hans@guardianproject.info</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> I'm currently working on getting the olsrd package in Debian to as easy<br>
>> as possible to connect to an existing mesh. Does the current olsrd.conf<br>
>> connect to any existing widespread meshes? If so, I'll leave the<br>
>> LinkQuality settings the same. Otherwise, since I'm working a lot with<br>
>> <a href="http://commotionwirless.net" target="_blank">commotionwirless.net</a>, I'd set up the default olsrd.conf to connect to<br>
>> <a href="http://commotionwireless.net" target="_blank">commotionwireless.net</a>.<br>
>><br>
>> On a related note, it would be very nice to have a config file in<br>
>> olsrd/files for each of the big mesh networks (funkfeuer, freifunk,<br>
>><br>
> regarding funkfeuer (and olsrd settings) defaults would just work fine,..<br>
><br>
> (but imho connecting with just an olsrd.conf dound in an debian package is<br>
> not really a good idea)<br>
<br>
</div>Why is it not a good idea?</blockquote><div> </div><div>because you (usually) need to have an unique ip address which got assigned to you (by the network you want to join) before starting your own olsrd.</div><div>
<br></div><div>and as long as olsrd (or some plugin) does not handle this, (and mesh networks also use this feature!) no olsrd config alone can be enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div></div>