[Olsr-dev] porting PUD plugin to OLSRDv2

[Ferry Huberts]

On 04/09/15 20:39, Ferry Huberts wrote:
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> On 04/09/15 12:01, KRIEK Arnoud wrote:
>> I am currently working on porting the PUD plugin to OLSRDv2. However,
>> there are still some things unclear to me about the PUD plugin.
>>
>> 1.Are all nodes aware of each others GPS position via PUD or just
>> their own?
>
> Just their own, unless you use the PUD uplink server, see
> https://github.com/AHR-Project/pudUplinkServer
>
>>
>> 2.If smart gateway is enabled, do all the nodes send their Position
>> update messages to the cluster leader?
>
>
> no, cluster leader is only for downlink.
> this was a deliberate design decision.
>
>>
>> The entire network needs to constantly update it’s GPS position for each
>> node. I would like to avoid having each node uplinking individually and
>> be able to access all the GPS information via any connected node to the
>> LTE server (so basically access the first node you find with the server
>> and immediately receive all GPS info from the entire OLSR network via
>> that node at any given time).
>>
>
> you're free to add a mode to PUD that does just that.
> however, keep in mind that I'm the author

meaning that I'd like to review your port

please don't touch the position dampening code, we spent a lot of time 
and tests on that.

 > and that convention is that
> you don't change default behaviour.
>
>
> do read the doc in lib/pud/doc
>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
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Ferry Huberts