[Olsr-users] OLSR topology and VPN links

[Markus Kittenberger]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Henning <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> On Thursday 23 June 2011 16:51:09 Teco Boot wrote:
> > > If you run the etxff_eth metric and tag all VPN links locally as "mode
> > > ether" you can recognize VPN links because of their ETX cost 0.1.
> >
> > Warning: all of this needs pseudo-broadcast. On larger networks, this
> won't
> > work well.
> It needs a link local multicast/broadcast. If your network cannot handle
> this,
> it will be unable to run OLSRd anyways.
>
> On Point-2-Point VLAN connections, you can even set the broadcast address
> of
> the interface to the unicast address of the other side.
>

but afair its not point 2 point vpn,..

and i guess there setup is working n2n without packetloss for (oslrd)
broadcasts, else they would have noticed olsrd, reporting "bad" etx values
over the vpn links,...

Markus

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