Olsrd An adhoc wireless mesh routing daemon
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An adhoc wireless mesh routing daemon Olsrd is an OLSR daemon, an implementation of the Optimized Link State Routing protocol. As such it allows mesh routing for any network equipment.It runs on any wifi card that supports ad-hoc mode and of course on any ethernet device.OLSR is next to AODV one of the main two internet standards for mesh networks. It is widely used and well tested.Since OLSR is on layer 3, it is highly portable. So far it runs on * Windows (XP and Vista, Windows 7) * Linux (i386, arm, alpha, mips, xscale) * OS X (powerpc, intel, xscale, iPhone) * VxWorks * NetBSD * FreeBSD * OpenBSD * Google phone (Android, G1) * linux wifi phones (WIP) * the $100 laptop * the Intel Classmate OLSR is fast and uses very little CPU time thus saving valuable battery power on embedded and portable devices.OLSR is highly scalable. It runs on community wireless mesh networks with 2000 nodes (Athens wireless network), ~ 600 nodes (berlin FreiFunk.net), Leipzig Freifunk net, ~ 400 nodes (FunkFeuer.at). As a deployed mesh routing protocol, it is regularly stress tested and we consider it quite solid since version 0.5.6-r7 despite what other competing protocols say. Of course there is always room for improvement.OLSR is released under a BSD license and it is easy to integrate it into your projects thanks to this very liberal license. What's New in This Release: · This release introduces working options to set the source and destination IP of the OLSR packets (both for IPv4 and IPv6) and a more flexible handling config handling. · The config parser recognize a new section called "InterfaceDefaults", which will (as the name says) set default settings for all interfaces (which can be overwritten in the specific sections) and allow using multiple config files (just use multiple "-f " arguments). Just be careful to set the IP-version EARLY in the first config file. Setting it from the command line will not work well. · In addition to this R8 contains a number of bug fixes including a fix for a MID related memory leak that has been around at least since OLSRd 0.4.10 (but got worse because of some changes in 0.5.6-R7).

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