[OLSR-users] n00b startup

[Eric W. Bates]

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Thanks all. Looks like I at least have the basics working.

I was confused because I have experience with ospf, bgp, etc. and some
of the options in the config file just didn't make sense.

e.g.
Hna4
{
 # Internet gateway
 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
}

I kept trying to read that as: "the default route is that-a-way"; but in
actual fact it is more like "I have the route 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0" is
is interpreted by everyone else as "the default route is that-a-way". It
was funny, I kept playing with it until it lit up and all the info
dumped out by olsrd -d 2 made it pretty clear what was going on.

I will try to write it up (no my German never got past 3rd year high
school) for others.

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:19 -0500, Eric W. Bates wrote:
> [...]
>> Is there a good How-To description I can read?  I've been able to find a
>> great many scholarly discussions of design and implementation; but have
>> had little luck finding a more nuts and bolts level document.
> 
> Well, I don't know how good your German is but on
> http://www.funkfeuer.at/ (and the Wiki and ML-Archive and ...) and/or
> http://freifunk.net/ (and ...) is a lot of information.
> And AFAIK there is no "How-To setup an OLSR mesh".
> One reason is that it is as "simple" as "configure your nodes, see if
> you get a WLAN connection on each link and that's it".
> The OLSRD configuration should be pretty self-explaining with exaples
> and man page.
> Link-testing must be done when you put it on the roofs.
> Voila.
> 
>> I'm building an outdoor wireless system linking several buildings back
>> to a single gateway. There will most likely not be any mobile units; but
>> it will be dynamic in the sense that nodes will appear and disappear
>> over time.
> 
> That is not a problem (given you have redundant links) since it is build
> for that.
> 
> 	Bernd


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