[Commotion-dev] OLSR mesh tether app on Commotion

[Will Hawkins]

Hello everyone!

First, let me introduce myself. I'm the newly minted "Commotion Mobile
Developer" at OTI. I'm sure that I will be working closely with everyone
from the Guardian Project (and others on this list) so I wanted to say
hello before I got any further.

I have had success building, configuring and running the OLSR mesh
tether app (pulled from the Guardian project's github repo). After some
tweaking to olsrd.conf I was also able to get it to properly mesh with
the other nodes on our Commotion test network here at the office. Here
are the relevant changes:

--- a/assets/olsrd.conf
+++ b/assets/olsrd.conf
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ InterfaceDefaults
     # If not defined the broadcastaddress
     # every card is configured with is used

-    # Ip4Broadcast             255.255.255.255
+    Ip4Broadcast               255.255.255.255

     # IPv6 address scope to use.
     # Must be 'site-local' or 'global'
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ InterfaceDefaults

 # Fisheye mechanism for TC messages 0=off, 1=on

-LinkQualityFishEye 1
-
+LinkQualityFishEye 0
+LinkQualityAlgorithm "etx_ffeth"

 # IP version to use (4 or 6)

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ AllowNoInt  yes
 # dynamically based on battery/power status
 # if such information is available

-Willingness            7
+Willingness            3

 # Allow processes like the GUI front-end
 # to connect to the daemon.


This diff is just FYI. Josh and I are going to figure out the best way
to publish these changes.

I'm very excited to get to work with everyone on this project.

Will