[OLSR-users] olsrd with 2 networks

[Sven-Ola Tuecke]

Bernd,

a typical mesh network will need a default route, because there is an inet 
gw. It's irrelevant what program configures the defroute. An untypical mesh 
does may not need a default route - e.g. Routers in most AS (Autonomous 
Systems) do not use such a thing AFAIK (which one of the connected network 
is *default*!?)

All network traffic destinned to adresseses not in the mesh will be routed 
to default and discarded by a typical provider to /dev/null or (more badly) 
to /var/log/intruders if you use non-inet IPs in your mesh. If you run your 
ifaces with the correct netmask, a local device will ARP for a non-avail 
station and put local traffic to the local /dev/null...

LG Sven-Ola

"Bernd Petrovitsch" <(spam-protected)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:00 +0100, Sven-Ola Tuecke wrote:
> [...]
>> using a /32 netmask will be OK if you dont have a default route on that
>> thing. Otherwise routing is different. Any packet to a destination not
>
> You mean a default route other than the one from olsrd?
>
>> covered by a host route will be sent to default. In a typical mesh 
>> network,
>                      or any other route
>> this is not what you want.
>
> AFAIU olsrd set a/the default route to whatever the protocol decides.
> How can this infere with whatever is the default route (which is IMHO a
> route as every other route - just the netmask is /0) otherwise?
>
> [ TOFU entsorgt ]
>
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