[OLSR-users] status of osx/bsd port

[Thomas Lopatic]

Hi Lorenz,

OS X is supposed to work. We had 0.4.10 work successfully on one OS X
system during CCC in Berlin. I know that one system doesn't mean all
systems, but, well, at least we were positive that olsrd runs on OS X in
general. :-)

The "unknown type" message hints at the problem. 201 is the type of LQ
HELLO messages. So, the OS X node does not know how to interpret LQ HELLO
messages. My guess would be that the OS X node has the link quality
extensions switched off. Could that be the case?

For link quality, we use our own proprietary OLSR messages (with their own
types), namely we replace HELLOs (type 1) and TCs (type 2) by LQ HELLOs
(type 201) and LQ TCs (type 202), that are almost identical to HELLOs and
TCs but, in addition, carry information about link qualities.

-Thomas