[OLSR-users] auto ip address assignment

[Cedric Krier]

On 05/10/06 12:22 -0400, Gaspard, Bradley S wrote:
> Auto ip address assignment has been a recurring topic on this list and I too
> am interested in trying to develop a plugin for it. I think I have read
> everything on this topic going back a year or so on this list and like
> Andreas's suggestion for a KISS solution using DHCP and olsrd for forwarding
> the DHCP requests/responses. 
> 
> But how would this work exactly? Ok a process could be running on each node
> listening for DHCP messages and a selected node could take the contents of
> the DHCP message make it into an olsr message and flood it through the
> Manet. The nodes that are also forwarding the olsr message might also then
> be responsible for taking the contents of the olsr message and reconstitute
> the DHCP message and re-broadcast it.
> 
> Is this sort of an outline of how it might work? Hope I'm not too far out in
> left field.
> 

Why not just let the each nodes respond to the DHCP request and give an
IP that is not yet used.

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