[OLSR-users] Injecting OLSR messages

[Andreas Tønnesen]

Stevie,

What tool are you refering to? olsrd is an implementation of the OLSR 
protocol... OLSR works on the IP layer communication using IPv4 
broadcast/IPv6 multicast.

- Andreas

Stevie wrote:
> What I am trying to do is setup several machines running your OLSR
> tool.  Then using tcpreal or some other tool, inject a crafted HELLO
> packet.  I understand how OLSR works (I hope), but would like to know
> what protocol does your tool use.  I ask this because the tool seems to
> be aware of existing IPs, interfaces, networks and routes.  Therefore I
> am guessing that the OLSR traffic is tunnelled over IP or possibly TCP
> on my network.  I guess the question is: at what layer does the OLSR
> tool operate?  I would like to use its logic for handling OLSR but want
> a way to introduce crafted OLSR messages to the OLSR network.  If I can
> get this to work I will not have to reimpliment OLSR.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:40, Andreas Tønnesen wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>S. Ely wrote:
>>
>>>attractive enough to the clients.  Do you have any references to the 
>>>actual packets being sent over the wire?
>>
>>I'm not sure what you mean by this... OLSR has no knowledge of regular 
>>data traffic being sent(and lost), if that is what you mean.
>>
>>
>>>Also, what sort of 
>>>authentication does olsr provide?
>>
>>None. A security plugin for olsrd, providing integrity and 
>>non-repudiatin,  exists - which was something I developed as part of my 
>>master thesis. You can read about it here:
>>http://www.olsr.org/docs/report_html/node156.html
>>However - this is very preliminary and "proof of concept" stuff. No 
>>standarizations exists(for OLSR AFAIK, I think there is a draft for 
>>Secure AODV around...).
>>
>>- Andreas
>>
>>
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>>
> 
> 
> 

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Andreas Tønnesen
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