[Olsr-users] 802.11S

[Aaron Kaplan]

On May 20, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Kim Hawtin wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Filipe Abrantes wrote:
>> When using an 802.11s network, all nodes within that network will  
>> appear
>> as if they are 1-hop (L3) away from each other (although I don't  
>> really
>> know if 11s implements pure broadcast).
>
> There is lots of broadcast and multicast on the XO via plain wired  
> ethernet,
> so I dare say there is plenty on the wireless mesh interface as well.
>
>> So, what would happen if you ran olsrd on top of the 11s network
>> would be to have all nodes creating direct routes (no L3 gateway)
>> to each other.
>
> Has anyone tried?
>
> I have access to a couple of OX's, some APs and some peecees that  
> alreay run
> olsr...
same here, but I know what will happen: in the graphviz output you  
wil simply see a complete graph.
Every node sees all other nodes if they are reachable in OLPC-802.11s.