[Olsr-dev] including wifi stats in jsoninfo

[Ferry Huberts]

On 09-06-12 22:49, Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>  wrote:
>>> This won't solve the problem to add a protocol UDP socket for new
>>> interfaces (where we most likely need CAP_NETADMIN), but it would be a
>>> step into the right direction.
>>
>> as long as the sockets are simple sockets on ports>= 1024 no special
>> privileges are needed. otherwise we might consider something like as startup
>> hook
>
> OLSRv1 is port 698, OLSRv2 is port 269.
>
> and we need one/two socket per OLSR-Interface, otherwise we have
> problems sending out multicasts on a specific interface.
>
> Henning
>

if we really want to go that way, we might consider socket handoff, like 
done here: https://lwn.net/Articles/273724/

then we might split olsrd in a backend and frontend part.


for now, I'm offline for a week. short trip to France.

-- 
Ferry Huberts