[OLSR-users] status of osx/bsd port

[Andreas Tønnesen]

Let me be a bit more thorough in my answer :-)
It looks like there is a 99.9% chance that you are not using the
LQ extentions while trying to join a LQ enabled network(LQ mode means
setting LinkQualityLevel to 2 in the config file).

Inline are some answers to your points:
> 1. startup:
> Checking en1:
>         Not a wireless interface
> so. olsrd/osx seems to think that airport extreme is wired. weird...  
> (yes i am sure that en1 really is the wlan interface).

HW detection does not work on OSX. It has no problematic effects.

> 2. olsrd/osx sent "HELLO" constantly. seems to be okay (?).

That's how OLSR works :-)

> 3. olsrd/osx "Received HNA from NON SYM neighbor xx.xxx.xx.xxx"
> problem here: olsrd/osx does not set any routing entries. is this a  
> known problem?

This would be a direct result of you not using LQ. You'll still recieve
MID/HNA but you have no registered neighbors.

> 4. olsrd/osx "Unknown type: 201, size 20, from xx.xxx.xx.xx"
> possibly a plugin active on the linksys?

201 is the LQ HELLO message. If you run RFC3626 mode(none LQ) then
you expect ID 1 for HELLO.

So I'm ready to bet a couple of beers that setting
LinkQualityLevel  2
on your mac solves the problems.


- Andreas