[Commotion-discuss] mapping of nodes w/ OLSR-Viz

[Seamus Tuohy]

Hey All,

On 04/02/2014 07:42 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> In my experience, when I'm connected to a gateway node, it shows itself
> as the only gateway on the network in OLSR-Viz. But when I'm connected
> to a non-gateway node, it seems to show all the gateways in OLSR-Viz. I
> haven't paid attention enough to confirm this, but it just seems to be a
> limitation of the way OLSRd reports HNAs/gateways in its txtinfo and
> jsoninfo plugins.

The gateway flag in the current olsr-viz simply looks for a host network
announcement of "0.0.0.0" from a node. I don't know if smart-gateway
impacts how the node collects HNA's from other devices when a node is
already a gateway.

> 
> There are definitely plans to replace OLSR-Viz with something much
> better, comparable to what other projects like Freifunk and AlterMundi
> use, but I can't really say how far off that is.
> 

I will add this to my notes on the new OLSR-Viz rewrite for clients. I
am planning to compile the feedback from the lists into a draft spec of
the new OLSR-Viz and sending it back to the lists in a couple of weeks
for a final round of feedback.


s2e

> Dan
> 
> On 04/01/2014 01:40 PM, john coleman wrote:
>> Somewhat related to my previous post about tracking the status of
>> Gateway nodes, I've noticed that OLSR-Viz only shows the node that I am
>> connected to as a Gateway. The other nodes are shown as Basic nodes
>> despite being directly connected to the internet.
>>
>> Am I mis-reading the OLSR-Viz symbology or is there another view that
>> shows the Gateway status of all the nodes in our mesh network?
>> thanks,
>> john
>>
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