[OLPC Networking] Re: [olpc-software] "Mesh" Software

[Jim Gettys]

Aaron,

Are you willing to mentor someone for the summer of code?

I signed OLPC up for the program; the issue is time/cycles to mentor the
summer students.
                                  Regards,
                                      - Jim


On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:25 +0200, Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> I can propose to use the OLSR routing daemon. It provides quite nicely
> for a number of meshes such as freifunk.net, funkfeuer.at (map at
> http://sandwich.funkfeuer.at/googletopo ). OLSR.org took a very solid
> approach: it integrated developments of other routing protocols (hazy
> link state routing etc) on a as-needed basis. It works in practice.
> 
> 
> How about a google sommer of code project "adapting OLSR to the needs of
> olpc"? Several things come to mind:
>   - IP autoconfig
>   - autoservice discovery 
>   - autosync 
> etc
> 
> best regards,
> aaron.
> %
> funkfeuer.at community wireless mesh, vienna
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 06:10 -0400, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> > Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> > > Maybe a bit out of date? I mean, there has been a lot of movement since
> > > 1999 ... especially in this (mesh) area ..
> > 
> > The paper is perfectly recent enough to illustrate that there are,
> > obviously, more than 3 substantially different routing protocols
> > available, which was the point I was making.
> > 
> > I wouldn't call most any of the general-purpose mesh routing work that
> > I've seen since that paper was published groundbreaking. A possible
> > exception is Biswas' and Morris' opportunistic routing (ExOR), but I
> > don't think that'll be of much good given our use case.
> > 
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child