open80211s 0.2.0: "Gilgamesh" (Feb 1st 2008)

Note: page is for Release 0.2.0. Please see the latest HOWTO for up-to-date documentation.

This is the third release of the open80211s stack, and the first one that is fully usable. Enjoy!

Components

• o80211s stack RELEASE 0.2.0
• o8011s iproute2-2.6.23 mesh support patch 0.2.0.
  • Tested with iproute2-2.6.24-rc7.
• o80211s wireshark-0.99.7 mesh support patch 0.2.0.
  • Tested with Wireshark 0.99.7
• HOWTO 0.2.0

New features

• Multicast/broacast frame forwarding with controlled flooding.
• On-Demand HWMP (based on hopcount, not airtime link metric)

Known issues

• Multiple links per peer are not supported. To avoid deadlocks that would result from this limitation, a 'CLOSE' mesh peer link management frame will close all links 'ESTABLISHED' with the sender even if link IDs do not match.