[Olsr-users] MPRs in 0.5.x branch

[Dmitry Mikhin]

On Thursday Feb 25 15:49:22 CET 2010 Henning Rogge wrote:

> > >  You will not get a working network with this settings, not even
> > >  in simulation (OLSRd does not run well with MPR selection in the
> > >  0.5.x branch).
> >   What do you mean by "not even in simulation" and "doesn't run
> >   well"? Am I understand right that current OLSRd doesn't
> >   work without ETX extension?
> OLSRd cannot handle MPR selections because of a problem in the
> dijkstra algorithm. You will not get well behaving routes.

By "not well behaving routes" do you mean routes with loops? Or there
are other problems?

> Thats why all Freifunk/Funkfeuer networks use "MprCoverage 7" at the >
moment.

So with MprCoverage 1 I'll probably get buggy routes. But with simple 3
nodes test it looks like all works fine. Does this bug appear only on
complex topologies?

Best Regards,
Dmitry.