[Olsr-dev] Question about PUD plugin for OLSRDv1

[Teco Boot]

> Op 4 sep. 2015, om 20:46 heeft Ferry Huberts <(spam-protected)> het volgende geschreven:
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> On 04/09/15 13:25, Arnoud Kriek wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> There are some things that are a bit vague to me in the documentation of
>> the PUD plugin.
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>> Are all nodes in the OLSR network aware of each others GPS information
>> with PUD enabled (for example in a table or list)?
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> They are in the sense that all these positions are transmitted on the LAN in the form of NMEA sentences.
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> The plugin itself is completely stateless, on purpose.
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>> I need to be able to access any random router in the network and get the
>> GPS position of all the connected nodes. The documentation states that
>> all Position Update Messages (internal interface) are transmitted to the
>> OLSR network. However, it says that only Position Update Sentences
>> (external interface) are added to a Packet and multicasted onto LAN.

On WiFi, the NMEA multicast has some disadvantages (low rate, high loss ratio). Maybe add a unicast TCP server socket, so WiFi clients utilize reliable and high rate transfer. 

Teco

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>> Thanks in advance!
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