[OLSR-users] SLIP lines and OLSRD...

[Ignacio García Pérez]

I'm currently using OLSRD over 9600 baud point to point SLIP serial
lines connecting about 30 nodes, and works fine so far.

However, I had to modify the source code of the latest version: as
someone points out in another message, a point-to-point interface does
not have a broadcast address, and since OLSRD needs one, it complains
and ignores it. The thing is that even if you specify a broadcast
address for that interface in the configuration file, OLSRD keeps
ignoring it. (this should be corrected IMHO).

If you want the (utterly straightforward) patch, let me know.

John Clark wrote:

> Unfortunately I have not had the time to get back to this problem, but
> I placed some slip
> lines (sl0 ... sl15) in the list of interfaces which OLSRD was to
> manage. OLSRD emitted
> an error message to the effect that there was 'no broadcast' on these
> interfaces, and ignored
> them.
>
> On the hardware using slip, I have an older version of OLSRD running,
> so my questions are,
> is this problem an artifact of an old version, is there some
> configuration parameter needed
> with slip lines, or is slip just not in the picture as a supported
> link method?
>
> Example slip based mesh:
>
> 192.168.1.100 10.13.0.1    <->  10.13.0.2    10.14.0.1 <-> 10.14.0.2
>                                                              <->
> 10.14.0.3  192.168.0.100 <-> 192.168.0.200
>
> The node which has 10.13.0.1 as an IP address on the slip interface,
> also has
> an ETHERNET interface associated with a 192.168.1.0 network.
>
> The node that has the IP addresses of 10.13.0.2 and 10.14.0.1 is
> connected
> SLIPwise on 3 interfaces, one connected to node 10.13.0.1, and two other
> nodes, 10.14.0.2 and 10.14.0.3. Node 10.14.0.3 in turn is connected via
> an ETHERNET interface to a 192.168.0.0 network.
>
> What I would like is that the 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.0.0 networks to
> be told
> to route via 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.1.100 respectively, and not
> have any
> details of the internal slip mesh connnections, paths through which
> could change
> over time.
>
> Thanks
> John Clark
>
>
>
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