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

[Dhruva Shrivastava]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try testing it using virtual machines.

Best Regards,
Dhruv

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> 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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