[Olsr-users] OLSR Pro Active autoconfig news?

[Aaron Kaplan]

Roar,

In my humble opinion:
just post it on a website and clarify the license issues. The net  
will take care of the rest :)
You can add docu etc any time.

best,
aaron.


On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Roar Bjørgum Rotvik wrote:

> Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>> On Die, 2007-11-13 at 01:49 -0500, Alex . wrote:
>> [...]
>
> [...]
>
>>> But for this i'd need a solution for assigning IP adresses
>>> automatically and, as far as i can see from my little research  
>>> tonight
>>> about OLSR (which i haven't tried yet but read a lot of good things
>>> about :-), there is only one proprietary verison that was made by  
>>> the
>>> author for a company which we can't get access to.
>
> I'm a guy working for this company :)
> It was our plan to release this code, and I announced it on this  
> mailinglist a long time
> ago. But unfortunately I have not had time to properly clean up the  
> code so we could
> release it..
> The project is called PAA (ProActive Autoconfiguration) by the way,  
> and the first version
> was designed and implemented by Andreas Tønnesen while he had a  
> summer job in our company.
>
> And since my announcement nobody have asked for it (before now), so  
> it had slipped below
> my radar (i.e. I forgot about it).
>
> To only clean up code to relase it should not take too long time,  
> but as in many projects
> is it not enough to just release code, one also need infrastructure  
> to handle
> documentation, patches, user feedback and so on. So far I have not  
> had time to do this..
> We could either go for a sf.net project type or on our own web- 
> site, I have to check some
> things first.
>
> But I'm not able to give any fixed deadline for this, but I'm  
> willing to take a look at it
> again. I see the benefit of a community to test and explore this  
> solution and come back
> with some feedback.
>
> A possible downside is that this autoconfig solution only supports  
> IPv4 today. But as all
> code this is fixable if somebody has time to do it :)
>
>>> Was there any more effort afterward to build a clone of this  
>>> solution?
>>
>> None that I'm aware of but Aaron might know more as he also is / 
>> the/ fan
>> of that feature.
>
> I'm also personally interested in IP Autoconfig, having watched  
> zeroconf and such for some
> years, so I'm also interested to know of any possible duplicate  
> effort on this..
>
>>> What other choice would i have?
>>> I thought about using the MAC and, if it's available on the device,
>>> IPv6 but i wish i could simply use a plugin instead of generating  
>>> IPs
>>> that way and needing to have IPv6 added if it's not there...
>
> [...]
>
>> For IPv4 you need duplicated IP address detection and an automatic
>> solution of that. And IMHO you actually need it for IPv6 too: MAC
>> addresses are in theory globally unique. I doubt that this is true in
>> practice given the vast numbers of sold network cards. And some clown
>> may change the MAC address at any time - if only to try it out or  
>> trying
>> to become a cool hacker or continuing some personal fight.
>
> The PAA solution consists of a standalone deamon and a OLSR plugin.  
> The plugin is used to
> flood DAD and IP requests in the mesh, using the flooding mechanism  
> in OLSR.
>
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> Roar Bjørgum Rotvik
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