[Olsr-users] OLSR without ad-hoc mode?

[Henning Rogge]

Olsrd (and Olsrd2) should work with any kind of layer3 network that
supports broadcast or multicast...

you can use adhoc, you can use accesspoint/station mode, you can use
ethernet or even VPN connections... as long as it has multicast its no
problem at all. Without multicast it does only work well for
point2point links and you have to preconfigure the IP of the other
side.

Henning
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:34 AM Robert Linden <(spam-protected)> wrote:
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> Hello!
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> I'm new to the whole wifi-meshing topic. Do I understand it correctly that OLSR works basically like this:
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> - each node connects to the same ad-hoc network, with a pre-configured unique IP address
> - each node broadcasts the addresses of all the other nodes it can see
> - each node collects this information and builds its own dynamic routing table
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> Does that sum it up, in principle?
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> My question now is: does (or can) something like that work with wifi modules that don't support
> ad-hoc networking, but only infrastructure modes? Would it work with 2 wifi modules, where one
> acts as an AP and one as a client? I guess in this case we would have the additional challenge
> of deciding to which network to connect in order to avoid a split in two (or more) disconnected
> sub meshes, right? But if the number/names of all nodes would be fixed and known I think the
> nodes could detect such a split and work out different topologies until everything is connected?
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> Is that possible with OLSR? Or are there other tools that can handle such a scenario?
> Maybe even with only one physical wifi interface? This (old) answer here suggests that it's
> possible to be a client and AP at the same time. https://superuser.com/a/155836/768623
> It seems that hostapd is the right tool for something like that?
>
> Thanks a lot for any pointer to documentation about that topic!
>
> All the best,
> rob
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