[OLSR-users] help in setting Freifunk what should I do to have a seamless network on top of Freifunk routers?

[Filipe Sampaio Rodrigues]

Thanks a lot Sven-Ola, I will diggest your email and hopefully I will 
sort it out.



Sven-Ola Tuecke wrote:

> Filipe,
>
> Bridging is a no-no in olsr networks. OLSR is routing. Same as on the 
> internet. Suppose every web server in the world is bridged to your PC. 
> That will be a *lot* of traffic - to much to be practical. Internet 
> uses routing too.
>
> For this reason, a private PC connected to one-of-4*LANs can contact 
> stations in the OLSR network using NAT (same NAT you use on a ISP 
> connection if you plug in a small network). For this reason, the 
> 192.168.1.x are not to be used on OLSR.
>
> Use tunneling to connect 2 privates, e.g. PPTP(Win) -> WRT -olsr-> WRT 
> -> PPTP(Win). Look in your favorite VPN-Howto (PPTP, OpenVpn, Cipe) on 
> how to setup this.
>
> Sven-Ola
>
> "Filipe Sampaio Rodrigues" <(spam-protected)> schrieb im 
> Newsbeitrag news:(spam-protected)
>
>> Hi,
>> what should I do to have a seamless network on top of Freifunk routers?
>> I am new to OLSR. My apologies for this eventually naive query.
>> Anyway, I have bought 2 wrt54gs  and flash them with freifunk 
>> firmware. Everything seams to be working ok but I cannot bridge the 
>> wireless and LAN network making a whole single network.
>> So I can ping all the machines connected to the two nodes (either 
>> wireless or RJ45) but I cannot connect to all of them. As if it 
>> wasn´t 1 single network.
>> Here goes the definitions I have:
>>
>> Node 1:
>> OLSR
>> OLSR DHCP: 104.3.2.0/26,255.255.255.192
>> Wireless
>> WLAN Protocol: Static
>> IP Address: 104.3.2.1
>> Netmask: 255.0.0.0
>> WLAN Mode: Ad Hoc (Peer to Peer)
>> ESSID: Lil-Mesh
>> TX Power: 84
>> Radio Mode: B Only
>> Transmission Rate: 1 Megabit/s
>> LAN
>> LAN Protocol: Static
>> LAN IP:192.168.5.1
>> Netmask: 255.255.255.0
>> Disable Firewall: Checked
>> WAN
>> WAN Protocol: DHCP
>> Hostname: lil1-wrt54g
>>
>> Node 2:
>> OLSR
>> OLSR DHCP: 104.3.2.64/26,255.255.255.192
>> Wireless
>> IP Address: 104.3.2.65
>> LAN
>> LAN IP:192.168.6.1
>> WAN
>> Hostname: lil2-wrt54g
>>
>> disable firewall is checked on both nodes.
>>
>> what should I do to have a seamless network on top of Freifunk routers?
>>
>> hope someone can help me on this.
>>
>> thanks a lot,
>> filipe
>>
>>
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