Re: [olpc-software] "Mesh" Software

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:00 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just looked through the archives but didn't find anything about the
> software, which is going to be used to create the wireless-mesh.
> 
> Maybe 802.11s would have been a good start, but doesn't seem to be ready yet
> ...

No, 802.11s isn't really going to be ready until next year even?

> There are protocols like AODV and OLSR, but I'd personally prefer something
> more standard. Something like OSPF.

Last I knew Michail was talking about AODV, I'm unsure if that's
changed.  I'd like to stress here that since OLPC is going to be
deploying quite a few systems, we can't rely on an immature, untested,
unproven mesh routing protocol.

Dan

> OSPF isn't suitable for wireless meshes currently, but there are some
> efforts to extend OSPF v3 [1] in a way, so it can be used in MANETs.
> 
> ANother interesting document can be found here [4], which gives some
> informations about the behaviour of MANETs with about 100 nodes.
> 
> There is already a patch (draft)[2] for quagga[3] and a simulator 2]
> available.
> 
> fabian
> 
> --
> [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ogier-ospf-mdr-position-00.txt
> [2] http://hipserver.mct.phantomworks.org/ietf/ospf/
> [3] http://www.quagga.net/
> [4]
> http://hipserver.mct.phantomworks.org/ietf/ospf/reports/Boeing-D950-10897-1.pdf
>