[Olsr-users] 802.11S

[Alexander Morlang]

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Don Moskaluk schrieb:
> I understand the idea of building towards something that is not
> finished however I do understand the most existing mesh solutions
> will need either to bridge or connect with 802.11S. My understand is
> that OLSR will bridge and not fully integrate 802.11S.

bridging happens on layer 2.
olsrnetworks are routing (ip addresses).
802.11s lives on layer 2 (mac addresses).

so, what you could imagine is a bunch of 15-20 systems with 802.11s,
forming ohne little cloud, which gets interconnected to other cloudes
with olsr.

or, you just run olsr over a 802.11s mesh.

that might be a situation, where you want to have both layer
communicating, in the sense of getting some metrics of 802.11 into the olsr.

> I also understand in Hybrid mode that nobody has implemented however
> that may changed with a host of new products being design for the
> future. What will be the road map for OLSR and 802.11S?  Is somebody
> looking at this in future or are people working on it today?

as i am not an olsr developer, i can't tell you anything. but, the
pluggable metrics could be seen as a development into a direction, where
some cross layer stuff might be possible in future.

> 
> Don Moskaluk

Alex

P.S.: throwing buzzwords will never lead to the answers you want to get.
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