[Olsr-dev] Patch Orgy Syncup / Sorting out old TCs [long!]

[Sven-Ola Tuecke]

Hi,

as posted on our berlin list (german), this may be of interest to others 
too. We currently have 3 main sources of olsr code and it starts to get a 
bit confusing (at least to me). There's the CVS (bit outdated), the HG repo 
from hannes and my patchset for the Freifunk Firmware.

To offer some kind of compromise between stability and actuality (e.g. for 
the 24c3 folks), I placed a Freifunk-variant of the olsr.org daemon sources 
here:
http://download.berlin.freifunk.net/sven-ola/binaries/

That directory also offers a current Windows OLSRD Installer - which really 
runs smoth now - at least in Berlin... The TGZ is branched from the CVS 
(2007-DEC-14) with all patches applied from here (100 to 139):
http://download.berlin.freifunk.net/sven-ola/nylon/packages/olsrd/files/

The same patchset for the *current* CVS is here:
http://ff-firmware.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/ff-firmware/ff-devel/patches-rib2.tgz

To document that FYI - here's a patch set description (based on CVS - which 
should stay the major Repo until official change/announced after 0.5.5?):

100-olsrd-cvs.patch
  (Diffs from last olsrd-0.5.4.tar.bz2 to current CVS)
102-olsrd-windowsfix.patch
  Changes necessary to compile under Win32/MSVC6
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
103-olsrd-moodfix.patch
  I have a box with a wrong libc: atof() results in garbage.
  Status: Not meant for CVS
104-olsrd-verysmallfix.patch
  Discards some debug garbage.
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
105-fix-lq-buffer-quirks.patch
  Sender side fix for LQHello/LQTC fragmentation.
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
110-bmf-v152.patch
  Grabbed a copy of eric's plugin and adapted that to CVS
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
115-paa-plugin.patch
  Experimented a bit with this.
  Status: Not meant for CVS
116-paa-plugin-fix.patch

  PAA plugin makefile breaks make
  Status: Not meant for CVS, needs rework
121-olsrd-fib-metric-approx.patch
  Adds a new mode for transferring metrics to kernel
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
122-olsrd-lqnatthresh.patch
  Adds an option to do route damping for the default
  route. In terms of social costs: It does not matter, if
  the best gateway is selected when having NAT.
  It only matters, it the selection is stable for some time.
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion (voodoo. But overall
  experience is good - no matter who complains)
133-fix-lqneigh.patch
  Reverts an idea of hannes (check seqno < newseqno)
  because this will lead to not forwarding lqtc if node
  is restarted a long time.
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion (see below, 134)
134-move-tcset-functions-and-revert-parts-of-133.patch
  Reverts 133 and shift some functions between C sources
  in order to got a more cleaner 135 patch. I leave that in,
  because hannes has applied this to his HG repo AFAIK.
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion (see below 135)
135-opt-lqtc-seqno.patch
  A new approach to sort out old LQ-TC messages. Checks
  ANSN to detect node restarts. If you prefer to read a more
  clear version, theres a perl script which realizes that with the
  olsrd's "-dispin" output: 
http://ff-firmware.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/ff-firmware/ff-devel/contrib/olsr-seqno5.pl
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
136-optimize-invalidip-check.patch
  Optimize/Corrects the check for invalid IPs
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
137-olsrd-192.168.1.1.patch
  Adds 192.168.1.1 as invalid-IP (many embedded devices
  have this addr as default - and it's fatal if sme. can add a
  host route via OLSR...
  Status: Not meant for CVS (need cfg file opt for this?)
138-optimize-message-generation.patch
  A multihomed hosts does nameservice announcments with
  different seqno - which is not necessary because you cannot
  configure different name-interval for ifaces. Also adds flushing
  buffer after writing LQ-TC if TC-Interval < Hello-Interval.
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
139-olsrd-magicarprefresh.patch
  Adds a flag to the add-arp-request because adding tmp-ARP
  it does not work on linux-2.4.x. You need a patched 2.4.x
  to make it work. Not needed for linux-2.6.x but it does not
  hurt <ggg>
  Status: Waiting for CVS inclusion
140-olsrd-optimize-size.patch
  Discards a lot of debug, hemu sockets, ipc to unbloat
  Status: Not meant for CVS
150-debugtree-sven-ola.patch
  Adds some kind of traceroute (you need to adapt the
  IPs in debug_path to your needs, then compile). This is
  for debugging olsrd only.
  Status: Not meant for CVS

Some words about the "sorting out old LQ-TCs". Looks good and works (the 
newest topo info is fed into the calculation). But needs further tweaking - 
because it does *not* sort out forwarding old TCs. Mainly, because an old 
to-be-forwarded-TC is already written in the sending buffer while receiving 
a newer TC. Why bother? Because 70-80% of the OLSR traffic is LQ-TC here. 
Which is unnecessary high - all nodes with 135*.patch will sort them out 
anyhow...

// Sven-Ola