[Olsr-dev] mtu problem with multicast ipv6 packets

[Henning Rogge]

On Montag 23 März 2009 20:15:45 you wrote:
> > Doing multicast and let the kernel handle the traffic (so that OLSR does
> > only need to initialize/update the multicast routes/trees).
>
> Yes but, what you want to do for creating the spanning tree ??
>
> Have you got already some smarter idea than PIM-DM or PIM-SM that
> takes advantage of OLSR information ?
My idea was to use some kind of statistics.

If the multicast group has only a few targets (3-4 ?) just unicast all data.
If it has at least 1/3 of the mesh network just flood it (with some addition 
to skip parts of the net without targets at all).
If the number is between the two values, use a multicast tree based on the 
routes to each target.

> At the University of Tor Vergata in here Rome we developed OBAMP
>
> https://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Andrea_Detti/obamp/   (theory)
> https://svn.ninux.org/   (code)
>
> it is an overlay multicast implementation that already works in Java.
> Overlay meaning that even not all the nodes in the mesh run the OBAMP
> software, the aware nodes create overlay links between them and then
> run multicast over the overlay.
>
> You know that Freifunk was considered for GSoC and one of the projects
> is porting the OBAMP protocol (Overlay Multicast for MANET) from Java
> to C and make an olsr plugin out of it ??
No, I did not know about it.

I'm looking (at the moment) for ways to let the kernel do our multicast 
traffic forwarding, instead of doing it in userspace. Maybe I will just 
discover "it cannot be done for mesh networks". ^^


> This may be interesting for many developers in the list.
Okay, maybe we should really pull all the people interested in a full (and 
efficient) multicast implementation for OLSR together in one place.

> If anybody wants more information can write to me privately. We can
> also have a chance to talk about all this live at the wcw2009 in
> Berlin !
Sounds good :)

Henning
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