[Olsr-users] How to prioritize OLSR UDP packets.

[Henning Rogge]

On Tue January 12 2010 01:32:46 Evan Witt wrote:
> We are running a mesh network, with each node running Ubuntu 8, with a
>  2.6.24-22-server kernel.
> 
> What is the quickest and best way to prioritize the UDP packets?
> 
> By running 'ip -s addr', we notice that there are no queues associated with
>  our ath0 interface.
OLSRd does not handle any traffic queues, but it sets a priority TOS field in the 
IP header to make it easier to sort the messages into a queue. I think the 
Freifunk-Firmware contains a script to prioritize the OLSR packages.

Henning Rogge

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