Mesh networking: olsrd? b.a.t.m.a.n.? OpenWRT?

[Patrick Flaherty]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com
> wrote:

> I'm trying (somewhat desperately) to get into mesh networking....
>
> I've got a bunch of little routers running OpenWrt 14.07 (Barrier Breaker),
> with which I'm reasonably familiar; but I'm looking to get a mesh network
> set up using them, and I'm really not at all familiar with _that_.
>
> It looks like the options for mesh networking involve either
> olsrd or batman-adv/batmand,  and it looks like there are packages for
> all of those things in OpenWrt.
>
> Do any of you have any experience with this? Any basic guidance,
> like... which protocol/suite I should prefer and why?
> Pointers to good HOWTOs?
>

I got nothing other then when I was asked about this before I looked at the
ddwrt docs (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Mesh_Networking_with_OLSR).
Not saying you would, but don't get too caught up on what platform you find
docs for, just take care to look for things like what's more
computationally expensive since the routers are likely low power.

If you do get it working, it would be a great talk at a meeting.
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