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

[Ignacio García Pérez]

Jon Smirl escribió:
> Do my wireless mesh nodes have to be running in ad hoc mode? Note that
> in my case they are in fixed locations.
Yes you need adhoc mode.
>
> If the wireless mesh nodes are running in adhoc, how does a normal
> laptop running in Infrastructure mode attach to the adhoc network?
It has to run also in ad-hoc mode and run olsrd. Definitely not for the 
average joe user.

A two radio setup would obviously solve the problem, but is more expensive.

And a third option would be having a radio that can simultaneously run 
in ad-hoc and ap mode. Checkout the atheros based minipci radios. I'm 
sure (because I've succesfully done it) you can setup a radio 
simultaneously as ap and client (in the same channel, of course). In 
fact, you can set it up as several virtual acces points and one client. 
I haven't been able to setup ap and ad-hoc simultaneously though.


>
> Could I run my mesh nodes in Master mode and then use OLSR to set up
> WDS links between them?
>
Mmm... don't know enough about WDS as to respond, but seem to recall 
that WDS was a really really dumb mechanism.