[OLSR-users] Re: Setting up OLSR for a complicated environment

[Alexander Morlang]

Bernd Petrovitsch schrieb:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 23:01 +0100, Lorenz Schori wrote:
> [....]
>> i'm no wds expert either but if i recall it correctly the wds is sort  
>> of a really dumb system. the algorithm for a wds node is something  
>> like "retransmit everything i receive except the stuff i sent  
>> already". this might be feasible for broadcasting but an olsr-network  
> 
> Sounds like the behaviour of a normal switch/bridge in the cable world.
> Do the run also STP to avoid loops?

that is the way how wds ist abused in most of the cases, bridging with stp.
but this is just one (bad) way of using it.

> 
> 	Bernd

Greets, Alex