[Discuss] differences from OLSR and Freifunk-OLSRD

[Érico Porto]

Thank you Aron!

Totally forgot that the OLSR users had a mailing list. Got some answers
there already!

Érico V. Porto


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)> wrote:

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