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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:23:05 +0100 From: Henning Rogge <hrogge@...glemail.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Linux kernel support for mesh network multicast routing Hello, I'm Henning Rogge, one of the programmers of the OLSR.org routing daemon. OLSR is a proactive mesh net protocoll and our implementation is used mostly on small routers or embedded hardware. At the moment OLSR.org does only support unicast routing (by setting routes in the linux kernel to do the hop-by-hop forwarding), but we would like to add the ability to use multicast too. OLSR is a proactive routing protocol, so each routing daemon has information about the whole network topology. Most mesh networks use wireless links, so we don't have well defined broadcast interfaces and often have to retransmit incoming packages back through the same interface. Does the linux kernel support setting up multicast forwarding rules like this so we could create multicast trees by the routing daemon and let the kernel forward the packages (and drop duplicates) ? Henning Rogge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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