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>Linux Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) IPv6
HOWTO</H1
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><A
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>Lars Strand</A
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>lars (at) unik no</A
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>2004-04-23<BR></P
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><B
>Revision History</B
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><TD
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>Revision 1.0</TD
><TD
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>2004-04-23</TD
><TD
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>Revised by: EJH</TD
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><TD
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>Final review complete. Document published to the LDP
collection.</TD
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>Revision 0.6</TD
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>2004-04-19</TD
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>Revised by: LKS</TD
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COLSPAN="3"
>Thanks to Thomas Zimmerman <thomas (at) zimres
net> for a language review! Updated to latest version number and
added a section on plugin-support in OLSRd. Changed lisence
back to <A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"
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>GFDL</A
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>Revision 0.5</TD
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>2004-03-08</TD
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>Revised by: LKS</TD
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>An almost complete rewrite. Adding OLSRd (old
uOLSR), updated to RFC3626. Removed NROLSR and
CRCOLSR. Converted to XML Docbook. Changed the license from
<A
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> due
to some GFDL <A
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>Revision 0.3</TD
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>2003-08-05</TD
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>Revised by: LKS</TD
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>Initial release.</TD
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> This document describes the software and procedures to set up
and use <A
HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3626"
TARGET="_top"
>Optimized
Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR)</A
> with IPv6 for
Linux. OLSR is used as a routing protocol for
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (<A
HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2501.txt"
TARGET="_top"
>MANET</A
>) (also
called <SPAN
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>"spontaneous network"</SPAN
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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>Introduction</A
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>1.1. <A
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>Why Ad-Hoc network?</A
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>1.2. <A
HREF="intro.html#WhatMANET"
>What is a MANET?</A
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>1.3. <A
HREF="intro.html#WhatOLSR"
>What is Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR)?</A
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>1.4. <A
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>How does OLSR work?</A
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>1.5. <A
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>What about IBSS (IEEE ad-hoc mode)?</A
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>2. <A
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>IPv6</A
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>3. <A
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>OLSR for Linux</A
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>3.1. <A
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>Installing OLSRd</A
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>3.2. <A
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>Using OLSRd</A
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>What about HNA messages?</A
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>3.4. <A
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>Plugin support</A
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>Optional GUI</A
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>3.6. <A
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>Other OLSR implementations</A
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>FAQ</A
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>6.3. <A
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>Feedback</A
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>Acknowledgments</A
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>A. <A
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