[clug] ... and WiFi access in Civic

[Steve Walsh]

Brad Hards wrote:
> Do any of the available wireless routers actually do proper mesh networking 
> and also provide access? Is connectivity adaptive (in that, if one of the 
> routers gets unplugged or otherwise fails, the network can find another 
> path)?
>   
OLSR is your friend and Savior! Can I hear an amen!?

"Optimized Link State Routing protocol. OLSR is a routing protocol for 
mobile ad-hoc networks. The protocol is pro-active, table driven and 
utilizes a technique called multipoint relaying for message flooding."

OLSRd is a daemon to do adhoc networking which scales up to 600 nodes. 
olsrd-ng is the second generation implementation

www.olsr.org

http://wiki.funkfeuer.at/index.php/OLSR-NG