[Olsr-users] General question about ad hoc routing

[Markus Kittenberger]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Robert Keyes <(spam-protected)> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
>
> > from the routing table you know the IP address of your next hop, not
> > just the interface to send the packet out.
>
>
> This is of course true. But, in the original question was the idea that
> packets are broadcast. This is true in the radio [level 0 and level
> 1] sense, but not in the Ethernet [level 2] sense. OLSR uses just
> unicast,


hmm without plugins (for multicast) olsr ROUTES just unicast traffic,
but USES only broadcasts for its own protocol traffic!

Markus
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