[Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routing

[Aaron Kaplan]

Justin,


in general the windows port is not as well tested as the mipsel  
binaries - simply because not so many people use it.
So it might be that there are some bugs in the windows version. If  
so, let us know! Better still: tell us where you believe that you  
found a bug.

Coming to the broadcast question: that should work. olsrd  
communicates on port 698 and also uses broadcast packets. You might  
want to check the firewall rules however.


hope it helps.
a.

On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Justin Krohn wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   I have to questions that I have not been able to find an answer  
> for.  I am attempting to use Freifunk based routers (running OLSR)  
> to create a mobile, ad-hoc vehicular network.  I am planning on  
> writing an application to run on the routers, but am concerned  
> about how to figure out what other systems running the software are  
> around.  Typically on LANs and WLANs I would just send out a  
> broadcast packet to a waiting piece of software on another computer  
> which would respond with information on what services the system  
> was running, but thus far all of my broadcasts have been filtered  
> by the OLSR daemon.  Is there a specific type of broadcast packet/ 
> method to get a broadcast message out to all nodes/clients?
>   Also, I have been doing some testing with the Windows OLSR daemon  
> available at http://download.berlin.freifunk.net/sven-ola/ 
> binaries/ , and while using it I have been able to easily connect/ 
> communicate with the various nodes in the mesh network, the  
> computer does not act as a multi-hop node, meaning that while it  
> will connect across multiple nodes to communicate with other nodes,  
> it does not allow other nodes to use it to communicate with other  
> nodes.
>   I am a relative newbie to OLSR, so if these questions are  
> exceedingly simple/stupid I apologize, and would appreciate any  
> help the mailing list can give. Thanks,
>
> Justin
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