[Olsr-users] General question about ad hoc routing

[Henning Rogge]

On Wed September 8 2010 10:37:52 Sergio López wrote:
> Yes, this is clear; my question was about the unicast data sent after OLRS
> route is established. If this data is broadcast, all nodes will retransmit
> it regardless the route if there is no plug-in for olrs or some system that
> handles that.
OLSRd does not support forwarding broadcast/multicast data unless you install 
the BMF or mDNS or OBAMP plugin.

The OLSRd core does only set up routes for unicast traffic.

> An idea will be, and actually I'm trying to develop it for my final degree
> project, that only broadcast messages coming from a node that have selected
> the node which receive the message as a MPR, retransmit the message.
That sounds similar to the BMF plugin.

Henning Rogge
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