[Olsr-users] Multicast trafic over speedest and most reliable link,

Ferry Huberts (spam-protected)
Thu May 5 10:53:02 CEST 2016



On 05/05/16 08:03, Taner Kurtulus wrote:
> Hi Henning,
>
> Thank you for the very fast response. So, now we will consider
> implementing our own multicast routing plugin.
>
> Before implementation we need more information about OLSRv2 and OLSR w/ EXT.
>
>
> Is OLSRv2 has a plugin like BMF, even  as a dump flooder ?
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>
>
> As I mentioned at my previous post we have two networks with different
> characteristics.  We couldn’t find best timeout values for HELLO, TC …
> messages.  OLSRv1 packets fills all network.
>
>
>
> Could you advise us configuration values for following networks for
> OLSRv1 with BMF
>
>
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> 2 Kbps shared by 10 nodes
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> 4 Kbps shared by 10 nodes
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> 16 Kbps shared by 20 nodes
>
> 64 Kbps shared by 20 nodes


These bandwidth are very low, I wouldn't advise running a mesh over 
those kinds of networks.

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> Thanks in advance,
>
> Best Regards
>
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> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)
> <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     both Olsrd and Olsrd2 are unicast routing protocols... BMF is just a
>     dumb flooder... olsrd2 contains no multicast forwarding at all.
>
>     You could get all the link metric topology data from olsrd/olsrd2, but
>     you would have to do the work yourself (the forwarding).
>
>     Henning Rogge
>
>     On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Taner Kurtulus <(spam-protected)
>     <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > We are planning to use OLSRv2 in order to decide best route for
>     multicast
>     > trafic. Best route can be described as over links which has
>     highest speed
>     > and link quality. Each OLSRv2 deamon will have at least two
>     interface, one
>     > has large capacity other has long link coverage with low speed.
>     >
>     > if we first link goes out of coverage, the other link should be
>     selected for
>     > routes.
>     >
>     > Is it possible to handle that scenario with OLSRv2 ? Or Do we need
>     to use
>     > OLSRv1 with BMF plugin. In that case link seed metric cannot be
>     used :( Am I
>     > right ?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
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