[Xorp-users] OLSR on Linux?

[Ben Greear]

Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 07/01/2009 11:47 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>  
>>> Has anyone ever used OLSR on Linux with more than one interface?  I 
>>> couldn't get it to work without
>>> the patch below, but maybe that's because of other patches I've added
>>> to xorp?
>>>     
>
> I was able to run OLSR just fine on Gentoo Linux 2008.0 with a 
> two-armed router (one wifi i/f, one ethernet) during its development. 
> What specific problem are you encountering, do you have error output? 
> I'm curious why a REUSEADDR is needed, when BINDTODEVICE seemed to 
> work just fine.
The problem was that the kernel would not open sockets claiming that 
they were in-use already.  I'm not sure exactly
why that was, but when I added the reuse-addr logic, it worked fine.
>
> OLSR currently isn't part of the XORP supported offering as such, so 
> anything that happens with it is on a best-effort basis.
>
> Thanks for the patch, we can try to incorporate it once the community 
> branch is re-opened. We are still waiting for legal clearance to do this.
No problem.  After my patch (the second, working one), OLSR seemed to 
create routes properly.  I haven't
tested mobility (adding/removing links via xorp cli), but will get to 
that today or early next week.

Thanks,
Ben
>
> cheers
> BMS


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