Feature request: add OLSR routing

[vchrizz]

Hi,

would it be possible to add OLSRv1 and OLSRv2 to FRR ?

From wikipedia: The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless ad hoc networks. OLSR is a proactive link-state routing protocol, which uses hello and topology control (TC) messages to discover and then disseminate link state information throughout the mobile ad hoc network. Individual nodes use this topology information to compute next hop destinations for all nodes in the network using shortest hop forwarding paths.

Source code can be found here: OLSRd (Version 1) - https://github.com/OLSR/olsrd OLSRd (Version 2) - https://github.com/OLSR/OONF

Thanks and kind regards, Christoph

[Jafaral]

@vchrizz , somebody has to do the work! but in the meantime check out babel, which is part of FRR. Babel is also optimized for wireless ad hoc networks.

[vchrizz]

@Jafaral thank you, our network (https://www.funkfeuer.at) in Austria already uses OLSR so using another protocol like babel would be a huge change and I'm not sure if even possible because of different devices and setups. AFAIK Germany (https://freifunk.net/) partly uses OLSR too. I'm not a developer but tried to add OLSR source to FRR and got so far to add the olsrd directory to Makefile.am so it is beeing also compiled when using make, but I doubt this is all it needs..

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