On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:19 -0500, Eric W. Bates wrote:
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> Is there a good How-To description I can read?  I've been able to find a
> great many scholarly discussions of design and implementation; but have
> had little luck finding a more nuts and bolts level document.

Well, I don't know how good your German is but on
http://www.funkfeuer.at/ (and the Wiki and ML-Archive and ...) and/or
http://freifunk.net/ (and ...) is a lot of information.
And AFAIK there is no "How-To setup an OLSR mesh".
One reason is that it is as "simple" as "configure your nodes, see if
you get a WLAN connection on each link and that's it".
The OLSRD configuration should be pretty self-explaining with exaples
and man page.
Link-testing must be done when you put it on the roofs.
Voila.

> I'm building an outdoor wireless system linking several buildings back
> to a single gateway. There will most likely not be any mobile units; but
> it will be dynamic in the sense that nodes will appear and disappear
> over time.

That is not a problem (given you have redundant links) since it is build
for that.

	Bernd
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