Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
On Monday 09 Apr 2007 17:57:32 Nagarjuna G. wrote:
installed a package called 'freifunk-dnsmasq', restarted it. Now we see an additional parameter on the web interface called OLSR-DHCP: This is where we give the DHCP share of the mesh network (not the lan network). thats it.
I need some details.
This entire thing now works only on the WLAN interface right? Is the LAN completely out of the picture? So, the backend itself gets broadened? Maybe subnetted, depending on the DHCP server(s).
Secondly, without the dnsmasq package, can we get the native udhcpd to work with the OLSR interface? I think we can.. What's the OLSR interface that shows up with ifconfig? It is possible, I think, to manually configure the DHCP server to listen on the OLSR interface.
The problem, I think, wasn't with the missing package, but with the fact that we had DHCP running on the WLAN interface instead of the OLSR interface. The native DHCP should work perfectly fine if I'm right... unless dnsmasq has some features I don't know about..
What you are saying and what you did last time are correct. Without the package we can achieve what we wanted. But instead of making changes on each node, they made it simpler by making an addon package, and also helping the dumb users to specify the dhcp range of wlan by providing OLSR-DHCP. It was not an add on package for an older freifunk firmware, but only in the current one. I guess they did it for space reasons, for you cant make the firmware bigger after a limit. I dont know if they have other reasons.
Nagarjuna