<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Yes,
this is clear; my question was about the unicast data sent after OLRS route is
established. If this data is broadcast, all nodes will retransmit
it regardless the route if there is no plug-in for olrs or some system
that handles that.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">An
idea will be, and actually I'm trying to develop it for my final degree
project, that only broadcast messages coming from a node that have selected the
node which receive the message as a MPR, retransmit the message.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><br>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Sergio</span></span></p><br><br>On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Markus Kittenberger <<a href="mailto:Markus.Kittenberger@gmx.at">Markus.Kittenberger@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Robert Keyes <<a href="mailto:bob@sinister.com">bob@sinister.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:<br>>><br>>> > from the routing table you know the IP address of your next hop, not<br>
>> > just the interface to send the packet out.<br>>> <br>>><br>>> This is of course true. But, in the original question was the idea that<br>>> packets are broadcast. This is true in the radio [level 0 and level<br>
>> 1] sense, but not in the Ethernet [level 2] sense. OLSR uses just<br>>> unicast,<br>><br>> <br>> hmm without plugins (for multicast) olsr ROUTES just unicast traffic,<br>> but USES only broadcasts for its own protocol traffic!<br>
> Markus<br></div>