[olsr-dev] Re-send: new version of OLSR multicast plugin

[Erik Tromp]

Hi all,

A new version of the OLSR Basic Multicast Forwarding (BMF) plug-in is 
available.

Here is the change log with respect to the previous version:

* Added the possibility to configure the BMF network interface: name (e.g. 
"bmf0"), type (tun or tap), IP address and subnet mask.
* Flooding of local broadcast packets (e.g. with destination IP address 
192.168.1.255) can now be turned off by configuration.
* When an application sends packets to the BMF network interface, BMF also 
floods these packets over the OLSR network. This makes it possible to use 
the BMF network interface as *the* multicast network interface; no more 
worries about which network interface to use for sending and which for 
receiving.
* Removed the TTL decrementing. This makes it possible for equipment, 
connected to a non-OLSR interface, to send their IGMP messages (TTL = 1) to 
a fixed multicast router (running e.g. mrouted - DVMRP) on another host in 
the OLSR network. In this way, a whole OLSR network, including its non-OLSR 
capable hosts, can be made multicast-routable from a fixed multicast-enabled 
IP network.
* Removed the check for 'IsNullMacAddress' when creating a network interface 
object. The check was not necessary. Removing the check makes BMF work on 
non-ethernet interfaces such as a ppp interface.
* Bug fix: in case there are multiple OLSR interfaces, when an application 
sends packets to one OLSR interface, BMF did not flood these packets via the 
other OLSR interfaces. This is fixed. Also, packets sent to an OLSR 
interface are transmitted on the non-OLSR interfaces.

The source package can be downloaded at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/olsr-bmf

Have fun with it!

Erik