[Olsr-users] olsr and the netmask

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It sounds like then the the IP addresses in OLSR networks must be
manually set on each computer on order to work.  Basically, you need to
know the ip range and netmask of the nearest neighbors, correct?

My goal is to make a "zeroconf" test network for the Debian package, so
newbies can just "apt-get install olsrd" then "/etc/init.d/olsrd start"
and have some kind of basic mesh working.  Therefore, it seems that
ahcpd is essential for that goal.

.hc

On 02/10/2012 03:09 PM, Markus Kittenberger wrote:
> in a mesh network, neither .. /16 or /17 or /18 ... /30 or /32 is
> correct, but usually anything (which is not too big) works..  (if the
> mesh routing software (e.g. olsrd) does work)
> 
> e.g. with a netmask of /32 you infact define that a node has no
> neighbours! (as its alone in its own network, and there is no
> network-route to anyone)
> and u need a mesh routing software to add known neighbours,.. (and host
> routes to them)
> 
> while e.g. if u use a /24, the node has a network route to this /24, and
> thinks it has up to 255 neighbours (in its subnet) which are one hop
> away (which is usually wrong!)
> so you need to add a mesh routing software to add routes (via correct
> direct neighbours) to the nodes that are multiple hops away (else this
> node will try and (most often) fail to communicate directly with all
> neighbours within the subnet)
> 
> main difference (regarding unwanted side effects), in the latter case
> you have unwanted packets (e.g. many/repeated stupid arp-requests),
> while in the first u have no change to communicate from one hop to its
> direct neighbour if the mesh routing software e.g. crashed
> 
> i hope this clarified things, if not:
> 
> yes u are overthinking,... (-;
> 
> Markus
> 
> (btw did u mange to ping between 2 nodes (without olsrd) via adhoc already?)
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <(spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I can't seem to wrap my head around
>     what each computer should have set for its netmask. It seems to me
>     that each node on the network should have a netmask of
>     255.255.255.255 since each node has an entry individually.  But then
>     I see that mesh networks use a defined set, like 10.10.0.0/16
>     <http://10.10.0.0/16>.  Is that just to define an IP for a given
>     mesh?  Or should each computer also have a netmask of 255.255.0.0?
> 
>     .hc
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