Michael Rack wrote:
Dear List,
sorry if that is not the right place for my question. But the approach of B.A.T.M.A.N in how to choise the next hop is phantastic. Protocols how BGPv4 and OSPF only take the shortest path to the destination. B.A.T.M.A.N looks for the fastest way where the Hello-Message arrives first.
So long. I need a Routing-Protocol for static mash. My Wireless-Network besides on fixed Wireless Stations they become never to be dynamic. The complete Wireless Network is in Infrastructure-Mode. All members in the Network have just one role (AP / Client).
Currently OLSR does the routing job. But there lots of problems. OLSR also take the shortest path, also in case, a better link is available.
For OLSR development it would be interesting if you could discuss on the mailing list there how your routing metric should be. OLSR has a very nice framework (this is one of the advantages that it has next tom some disadvantages) that actually you *can* change the metric! We simply did not find any way yet to make layer 2 metrics cross plattform comparable.
But this is better discussed on the OLSR mailing lists of course. (off topic here)
B.A.T.M.A.N is not suitable for my situation. The Client should not be able to select a desired gateway. A gateway should inject a default gateway to the clients, how OLSR does it.
Is there any other routing protocol on the market, that combine all that features, that i need?
You could try BGP . It is for sure very stable and very well tested ;-) And actually it is also used in static mesh networks. I have the feeling that it will actually do what you want. without major bugs.
* Routing descission on fastest HelloMessage * Inject Default-Gateway via 0.0.0.0/0 * Without tunneling dataLiebe Grüße aus Freilassing,
Michael Rack RSM Freilassing