[Olsr-users] Help with layer2info plugin

Ferry Huberts (spam-protected)
Wed Mar 2 22:18:52 CET 2016



On 02/03/16 21:43, Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Fábio Carvalho
> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> So, if nl80211_plugin doesn't work the DLEP_router will work correctly? The
>> DLEP_pugin doesn't depend the nl80211_plugin, right?
>
> There are TWO DLEP Plugins... DLEP-Radio and DLEP-Router.
>
> Both of these plugins AND nl80211_plugin interact with the layer2 database.
>
> NL80211 fills up data into the layer2 database by querying the Linux
> Kernel about Wifi.
>
> DLEP-Radio TAKES data from the layer2 database and transmit it over a
> local LAN connection.
>
> DLEP-Router receives this data from DLEP-Radio and puts it into the
> Layer2 database.

Maybe clearer names would be 'DLEP-Server' and 'DLEP-Client' ?

>
>
> Both Layer2Info-Plugin and the FF-DAT-Metric take data from the layer2 database.
>
>
> I hope this clears up the whole thing a little bit.
>
> Henning
>

-- 
Ferry Huberts



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