On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 01:16 +0100, Andi wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Thomas, Hi List, > > MBurns schrieb: > >> OLSR or the follow up B.A.T.M.A.N. is quite good for that, > >> and: there is as well the option to add auto-ip-signment to Batman. > > > > Which I am sure is true, but irrelevant. As the hardware/software > > debate that just happens shows, no general-purpose routing daemon, > > superhero-named or otherwise, is appropriate or capable of running on > > the specialized networking hardware the OLPC requires. Although > > testing projects to see how BATMAN compares to the binary blob are > > welcome. Competition is a good thing. > > Yes, competition is a good thing. > > Krishna Sankar (Cisco) says 802.11s is like a Ad-Hoc On-Demand > Distance-Vector (AODV) or Dynamic MANET On-Demand Routing (DYMO) net. > http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/networking/2006-September/000029.html > Here http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~cjw/ (Publications: “Performance Comparison > of AODV and OFLSR in Wireless Mesh Networks”) can you find a *pure* > *theoretical* comparison between the different approaches. > The comparison is not really valid because B.A.T.M.A.N. is the successor > of OLSR and has many advantages. (much smaller, less CPU) > > The BIG difference between them is that 802.11s has never extensive tested > in *real* *live* > > So get B.A.T.M.A.N. https://www.open-mesh.net/ and check it for yourself. > Almost no dependencies, make, run. > Btw. the implementation on MAC-layer suitable to integrate in the > Mavell-Chip firmware is on the way. https://dev.open-mesh.net/batman > > > >> A proper open-source version of that firmware would be very nice. > > I read that Marcelo Tosatti is now working on a proper open-source version > of the Marvell firmware. Is that correct ?
Not really, no. He's doing _driver_ work, not firmware. Dan > > cheers > Andi > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
