I've been watching this thread with great interest, having recently been introduced to the possibilities of OLSR (net/olsrd) for local (and beyond) P2P wi-mesh networks, and wondering if/how zeroconf fits in.
Some refs: My discovery point, a great (online) book found from a review by Geoff Huston in the Internet Protocol Journal Vol 9 No 2, p44: Wireless Networking in the Developing World: http://wndw.net/ OLSR.ORG: http://www.olsr.org/ RFC: http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3626.txt (basis, though olsrd extends this) Host addresses in such a MANET appear to require manual allocation so far, usually in RFC1918 ranges, but the notion of zeroconfig-joining such a network seems perhaps worthy of exploration? Am I way off base here, thinking some matchmaking might be useful? Cheers, Ian On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Pat Lashley wrote: [..] > Hmmm. Interesting routing problem. Basically, we need to prefer a route that > doesn't use the LLA (unless the destination is in an LLA); but still handle > the > edge cases like having the default route be through an LLA-only-connected > router. (Which MUST do NAT...) > We also need to keep an eye towards dynamic roaming. One scenario is a > campus > composed of multiple Link Local zones and WiFi. As you move around the > campus > with your (running) laptop, it will have to re-negotiate/defend its LLA; and > may need to obtain a different one. The address of the default router is > also > likely to change as it moves from one zone to another. > Of course, in that scenario it doesn't matter whether you have any non-LLA > IP > addresses; since you won't be using them. BUT if you add in a mix of non-LLA > addresses advertised as servers; the routing adjustments could become quite > interesting... > > Some of the problems raised by roaming scenaria need not be addressed > immediately; but we do need to keep them in mind during the design phase to > ensure that our solution to the basic LLA/mDNS issues doesn't make the > roaming > issues even harder to handle. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
