A simple olsrd.conf
Posted by Mungo under Chapter 3 on March 12th, 2007.We are not going to provide a complete configuration file. Here are some essential settings that should be checked.
UseHysteresis no
TcRedundancy 2
MprCoverage 3
LinkQualityLevel 2
LinkQualityWinSize 20
LoadPlugin “olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.3″
{
PlParam “Interval” “60″
PlParam “Ping” “151.1.1.1″
PlParam “Ping” “194.25.2.129″
}
Interface “ath0″ “wlan0″ {
Ip4Broadcast 255.255.255.255
}
There are many more options available in the olsrd.conf, but these basic options should get you started. After these steps have been done, olsrd can be started with a simple command in a terminal:
olsrd -d 2
I recommend to run it with the debugging option -d 2 when used on a workstation, especially for the first time. You can see what olsrd does and monitor how well the links to your neighbours are. On embedded devices the debug level should be 0 (off), because debugging creates a lot of CPU load.
The output should look something like this:
--- 19:27:45.51 --------------------------------------------- DIJKSTRA 192.168.120.1:1.00 (one-hop) 192.168.120.3:1.00 (one-hop) — 19:27:45.51 ———————————————— LINKS IP address hyst LQ lost total NLQ ETX 192.168.120.1 0.000 1.000 0 20 1.000 1.00 192.168.120.3 0.000 1.000 0 20 1.000 1.00 — 19:27:45.51 ——————————————– NEIGHBORS IP address LQ NLQ SYM MPR MPRS will 192.168.120.1 1.000 1.000 YES NO YES 3 192.168.120.3 1.000 1.000 YES NO YES 6 — 19:27:45.51 ——————————————— TOPOLOGY Source IP addr Dest IP addr LQ ILQ ETX 192.168.120.1 192.168.120.17 1.000 1.000 1.00 192.168.120.3 192.168.120.17 1.000 1.000 1.00
