[Olsr-users] Broadcasting data to all OLSR nodes

[Henning Rogge]

Am Tuesday 27 January 2009 11:21:53 schrieb Bhat, Ishwara:
> Hi,
>
> I need to broadcast data to all OLSR nodes. My network is 10.1.18.x and
> in single hop 10.1.18.0 is functional as broadcast address.
>
> I could not yet distribute the nodes geographically so as to create a
> true multihop network.  Do you think the OLSR nodes can rebroadcast the
> packet when the destination is broadcast address ? Is it achievable by
> the routing table entries created by OLSR ?
No... a broadcast package has a range of "1 hop".

> Or I should package all data traffic as OLSR packets in order to do
> multihop broadcasts?
You could do this, but you would have to add code to olsr to do it.

> Or is it my application's job to broadcast the data packets?
Maybe you could just test the BMF plugin (you have to run it on all nodes). It 
creates a multicast tap interface (224.0.0.1), all traffic send into this 
address is forwarded to all nodes.

Henning

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