<div>Thank you Aron!</div><div><br></div><div>Totally forgot that the OLSR users had a mailing list. Got some answers there already!</div><div><br></div><div>Érico V. Porto</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@lo-res.org">aaron@lo-res.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div class="im"><div>On Mar 10, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Érico Porto wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>This website was very enlightening: <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/the-olsr-story" target="_blank">http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/the-olsr-story</a></div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></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 class="im"><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>
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div></div><div>It is not anymore :)</div><div><br></div><div>For <a href="http://OLSR.org" target="_blank">OLSR.org</a> (a.k.a. "OLSRd", which is the implementation used bei Freifunk and <a href="http://Funkfeuer.at" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">OLSR.org</a> implementation. Our implementation became very solid [1] .</div>
<div>The last Wirelessbattlemesh (WBM, <a href="http://battlemesh.org" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
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