<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 10, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Érico Porto wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>This website was very enlightening: <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/the-olsr-story">http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/the-olsr-story</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Well I am not 100% sure it is correct. You have lots of FUD and a very angled view represented there.</div><div>After all, the author of "the olsr story" actually wanted to invent a new protocol (B.A.T.M.A.N.).</div><div>Mind you, inventing a new protocol is a totally valid approach!</div><div>But IMHO it is not necessary to dismiss all the work done so far.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>But as the text has no date, I can't know how far that information is updated.</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><div>It is not anymore :)</div><div><br></div><div>For <a href="http://OLSR.org">OLSR.org</a> (a.k.a. "OLSRd", which is the implementation used bei Freifunk and <a href="http://Funkfeuer.at">Funkfeuer.at</a> and many many other </div><div>wireless networks out there), there was a ton of changes and additions and rewrites.</div><div>Many of the remarks about scalability and speed of OLSR are not true anymore.</div><div>Routing loops are seldom, gateway switching problems solved, CPU load is super low. etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Fact is, that OLSRd has become a de-facto standard for meshing and most solutions build on top of the </div><div><a href="http://OLSR.org">OLSR.org</a> implementation. Our implementation became very solid [1] .</div><div>The last Wirelessbattlemesh (WBM, <a href="http://battlemesh.org">http://battlemesh.org</a>) tested OLSRd, B.A.T.M.A.N. and Babel against </div><div>each other. The result was a polite "no single winner", but when you looked at the detailed result page, then </div><div>OLSRd beat the "competitors" in most categories (but not in all, of course).</div><div><br></div><div>I hope I could clarify some points .</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, a friendly hint: you are on the wrong mailinglist when you want to discuss OLSR topics. :)</div><div>The right one would be <a href="mailto:olsr-users@lists.olsr.org">olsr-users@lists.olsr.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] note: there is always room for improvement</div></body></html>