Salut/avahi/meshview issues

Ricardo Carrano carrano at ricardocarrano.com
Wed Jan 30 13:35:21 EST 2008


Sjoerd,

I know the  wikipedia list. Most papers (never implemented). And to my best
knowledge none implemented at layer 2.

On Jan 30, 2008 4:12 PM, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:37:24AM -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> > Sjoerd,
> >
> > Could you please develop this? What do you mean by "wireless firmware
> not
> > being good enough to do actual multicast routing."?
>
> Not good enough might be a bit harsh. What i mean is that as far as i know
> it
> doesn't implement any mesh multicast routing protocols. MAODV is a
> well-known
> example of a mesh multicast routing protocols and there are a whole bunch
> more.
> Wikipedia has a whole list[0] and if you look a bit into the research on
> MANET's a bit you'll probably find those and a whole lot more.
>
> If it would implement one of those, the point at which the network starts
> melting because of MDNS traffic should be a lot higher then it is now.
> Especially if you have a reasonably dense network, like say inside one
> school.
>
>  Sjoerd
> 0:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ad-hoc_routing_protocols#Multicast_Routing
> --
> Each of us bears his own Hell.
>                -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
>
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