Mesh Networking with OLSR

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==Parameters== ==Parameters==
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 +Sample config file:
DebugLevel 0 DebugLevel 0
IpVersion 4 IpVersion 4

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Contents

General

What is mesh networking?

Why mesh networking?

Benefits of mesh networking

  • self organizing
  • low system maintenance needed
  • robust due dynamic route recalculation

Disadvantages of mesh networking

  • additional network traffic

OLSR

General

[OLSR] is a dynamic linkstate Protocol which collects link data and dynamically calculates the best routes within the network.

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLSR
http://www.olsr.org

Parameters

Sample config file:

DebugLevel              0
IpVersion               4
AllowNoInt              yes
Pollrate                0.1
TcRedundancy            2
MprCoverage             7
LinkQualityFishEye      1
LinkQualityWinSize      100
LinkQualityDijkstraLimit 0 7.0
LoadPlugin "olsrd_txtinfo.so.0.1"
{
       PlParam "Accept" "127.0.0.1"
}
Hna4
{
}
IpcConnect
{
       MaxConnections  1
       Host            127.0.0.1
       Net 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
}
LinkQualityLevel 2
UseHysteresis no
Interface "eth1"
{
       HelloInterval           5.0
       HelloValidityTime       90.0
       TcInterval              3.0
       TcValidityTime          270.0
       MidInterval             15.0
       MidValidityTime         270.0
       HnaInterval             15.0
       HnaValidityTime         90.0
       LinkQualityMult 10.100.2.5 0.5
}
Interface "vlan1"
{
       HelloInterval           5.0
       HelloValidityTime       90.0
       TcInterval              3.0
       TcValidityTime          270.0
       MidInterval             15.0
       MidValidityTime         270.0
       HnaInterval             15.0
       HnaValidityTime         90.0
       LinkQualityMult 10.100.2.5 0.5
}

Setup within DD-Wrt