[Olsr-users] Configuration file for DLEP when using Laptop WiFi Card as Radio

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Dhruva Shrivastava <(spam-protected)>
wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. Actually I am doing some measurements to assess the
> performance of DLEP.
>
> At present I am just using it with laptops. Is it possible to run the dlep
> with these configuration? Thanks
>

Not sure my DLEP implementation will work well over loopback... multicast
over loopback (DLEP needs multicast for discovery) is sometimes tricky.

Maybe you could use two Linux network namespaces or two virtual machines
and then just use the connecting interface as the dlep_radio datapath.

Henning

>
> Best Regards,
> Dhruva
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Dhruva Shrivastava <
>> (spam-protected)> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I have two laptops configured as olsrd2 router and now I also want to
>>> use the DLEP in these interface.
>>>
>>> Can you please suggest the configuration I can use for the DLEP Router
>>> and DLEP radio plugin? As in this case I have built in NIC which is the
>>> radio. But in the wiki it's the configuration is for mesh point which is
>>> connected through ethernet.
>>>
>>> Should I use the loopback as the datapath?
>>>
>>> [dlep_radio=wlan0]
>>>         datapath_if          eth0
>>>
>>>
>>> [dlep_router=eth0]
>>>
>>> Why do you even need DLEP if your NIC is built into the same computer as
>> the routing software?
>>
>> Henning
>>
>
>
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