Call for testers: olsrd and IP_ONESBCAST

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Sun Apr 15 17:16:11 UTC 2007


On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

 > For a while now I have had a patch available to teach olsrd to use 
 > IP_ONESBCAST instead of using libnet/bpf just to send broadcast 
 > datagrams in FreeBSD, which has had IP_ONESBCAST for a few years now.

Would 'a few years' likely include 5.5-STABLE?  Which file/s will tell?

 > If anyone is using olsrd on FreeBSD I would greatly appreciate testing 
 > and feedback for this patch: 
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/olsrd-onesbcast.diff

I've no reachable neighbours so far, but I've set it up and run it once
or twice in anticipation of both geekier neighbours and better kit ..

<ot> suppose you'll have come across https://www.open-mesh.net/batman ? 
If so, have you any thoughts on their rather savage dissing of olsrd as
it stands, and apparent greater success with seeming raw, seat-of-pants,
scarcely documented but possibly real-world-practical algorithms? </ot>

Cheers, Ian



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