On Tuesday 10 Apr 2007 14:25:54 Nagarjuna G. wrote:
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.
Hmmm. How was the additional package installed?
And of course, it is easier to do it this `new' way, but I'm just wondering what went wrong that it wasn't working with the old firmware. I guess the manual way should work fine with the new firmware as well, so it'll be good to have a fallback, in case something goes wrong with the dnsmasq way.
Then again, the problem is in getting it to work manually.