[Olsr-dev] default config is rfc

Sven-Ola Tücke (spam-protected)
Thu Oct 18 11:24:36 CEST 2007


Hi,

for me, the config looks fine at a first glance. Fisheye is on, long valid
times, long resend-intervals for not disturbing others etc. Polltime is a
bit high for embedded but is very ok for > 32MB RAM.

// Sven-Ola

Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 17 October 2007 14:13, Jens Nachtigall wrote:
>> > distro makes/packagers to what to deliver per default
>> > (or none at all to force people to think about it).
> 
> Generally speaking and IMO: If it's possible to deliver a default config
> which works for, say, >80% of the users (maybe even with small tradeoffs,
> maybe even for 50% and not 80), I think it's sensible to ship one. Why
> make life hard if it can be easy? :)
> 
>> sure, but quite often the distros simply stick to what upstream thinks is
>> the best (that is, olsrd's default config file). So if you change it,
>> openwrt/debian/etc will probably follow...
> 
> Actually the default config the debian package ships is not the default
> config from olsrd, but a tweaked one, first based on the freifunk
> olsrd.conf and then further tweaked with elektras help at cccamp07, the
> mistakes are all mine though :) I've attached it so you can easily
> compare.
> 
> I also changed the location of it to /etc/olsrd/olsrd.conf, to comply with
> debians layout of /etc.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Holger





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