[Olsr-users] olsrd bandwidth vs static routes

[ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)]

> I'm currently investigating the bandwidth olsr achieves.  Oddly, its better
> than static routes.  Any reason why?
>
> I'm running olsrd on two N800s (running Maemo Linux), with default
> settings.  I've measured with a couple of tools (iperf, ttcp, nuttcp).  So
> with static routes, ie issuing commands like ip route add 192.168.0.1 dev
> wlan0, I get a transfer rate of about 3 Mbps. However when I run the test
> with olsrd running I get almost 4 Mbps.  For some reason running the daemon
> speeds up transfer, even though its not really choosing a better route
> (theres only one).

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