[Olsr-dev] does the current Debian olsrd.conf work with a mesh?

[Henning Rogge]

Whats about making a default based on ipv6? This would make it easy to
prevent address collisions by the starting script.

Henning
Am 28.06.2012 21:20 schrieb "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <
(spam-protected)>:

>
>
> On 06/28/2012 03:06 PM, Daniel Nitzpon wrote:
> > Am 28.06.2012 20:38, schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> >> On 06/28/2012 02:34 PM, Markus Kittenberger wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> As for wireless hardware with bad ad-hoc support, this script isn't
> >>>> going to make things worse for them.
> >>>
> >>> not for them, but for others! (-;
> >>>
> >> How?
> >
> > AKAIK most mesh networks tend to have the problem that it's too easy to
> > connect to them rather than too difficult.
> >
> > We often have "black holes" resulting from HNA or firewall
> > misconfiguration, that attract all traffic e.g. going out to the
> > internet but then drop the packets instead of forwarding them.
> > In similar ways double use of IP adresses, malfunctioning drivers, too
> > high tx power settings etc. can render a mesh network unusable in
> practice.
> > The problem is in general that a user can ruin the network for all the
> > others, in the worst case without even noticing anything himself. If you
> > don't have any contact details of this user then, you're f**ed.
> >
> > I like the idea of having out-of-the-box connectivity to local meshes a
> > lot, but this is definitely something that (if doable at all) needs a
> > much more holistic approach than sensible olsrd.conf defaults.
>
> Thanks, that was a useful description.  I think I'll go back to my
> original idea with is and make the default setup have sensible defaults
> in olsrd.conf then use these settings for the adhoc setup:
>
> SSID: olsr.org
> BSSID: cc:cc:cc:cc:cc:cc
> channel: 7
> ip address: 172.29.x.x with x being the last digits of the MAC
> netmask 255.255.0.0
> Ip4Broadcast          255.255.255.255
> LinkQualityFishEye 1
> LinkQualityAlgorithm "etx_ff"
>
> This will let people easily start a mesh with whoever is nearby, but
> make it harder for them to inadvertently connect to a mesh and mess it
> up.  Do the above settings make sense?  I think "Ip4Broadcast
> 255.255.255.255" and the use of InterfaceDefaults are the only changes
> from the previous olsrd.conf that was included, besides text formatting.
>
> .hc
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