NAME
olsrd - Optimized Link State Routing protocol daemon
SYNOPSIS
olsrd [ -i interface1 [interface2 ...] ] [ -f configfile ] [ -d
debuglevel ] [ -ipv6 ] [ -ipc ] [ -dispin ] [ -dispout ] [ -nofork ] [
-bcast broadcastaddress ] [ -delgw ] [ -hint HELLO interval ] [
-tcint TC interval ] [ -midint MID interval ] [ -hnaint HNA interval
] [ -T scheduler poll rate ] [ -hemu IP address ]
DESCRIPTION
olsrd is an implementation of the Optimized Link State Routing protocol
for Mobile Ad-Hoc networks(MANET). The protocol is described in
RFC3626. It is designed to be run as a standalone server process - but
as it is still in an experimental stage most users will prefer running
it with some debug output which is directed to STDOUT.
This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of
the configuration file see the comments included in /etc/olsrd.conf.
Note that none of these options need to be set at the command line -
all these options and others can be set in the configuration file.
This implementation also features an alternative routing scheme based
on link quality using an ETX-like metric developed by the c-base
community in Berlin. To enable and tweak this mode you must use the
configuration file.
The homepage of olsrd is http://www.olsr.org
OPTIONS
-i interface1 ... interfaceN
This option specifies on what network interfaces olsrd
should run. These interfaces cannot be aliased interfaces
such as eth0:1.
-f configfile
This option overrides the default configuration file path
used by olsrd - /etc/olsrd.conf
-d debuglevel
This option specifies the amount of debug information olsrd
should write to STDOUT. If set to 0 olsrd will run in the
background.
-ipv6 This option instructs olsrd to use the Internet Protocol
version 6. The default is version 4.
-ipc This option allows the GUI front-end created fro olsrd to
connect to olsrd at runtime.
-dispin This option, when set, causes olsrd to display all incoming
packet data on STDOUT. When using IPv4 the data is
displayed in decimal format, when using IPv6 the data is
displayed in hexadecimal format.
-dispout This option, when set, causes olsrd to display all outgoing
packet data on STDOUT. When using IPv4 the data is
displayed in decimal format, when using IPv6 the data is
displayed in hexadecimal format.
-nofork This option, when set, causes olsrd not to fork and run in
the background if started with debuglevel 0. Useful for
init scripts.
-delgw If this option is set olsrd will remove any default routes
set prior to adding an Internet route based on OLSR
routing.
-bcast broadcastaddress
This option specifies what IPv4 broadcastaddress to use for
OLSR control traffic. The only value that currently makes
sense when setting broadcast address mannually is
255.255.255.255. The default action is to use the
broadcastaddres that the network interface is preconfigured
with(per interface).
-hint seconds
This value sets the interval on which HELLO messages should
be generated. The value is a floating point number
representing seconds.
-tcint seconds
This value sets the interval on which TC messages should be
generated. The value is a floating point number
representing seconds.
-midint seconds
This value sets the interval on which MID messages should
be generated. The value is a floating point number
representing seconds.
-hnaint seconds
This value sets the interval on which HNA messages should
be generated. The value is a floating point number
representing seconds.
-T seconds This option sets the polling intervall of the scheduler.
The default is 0.1 seconds. This option should only be
considered if running with really low emission intervals.
-hemu IP address
Use this option to connect to the olsr_switch network
simulation application. Here IP address will be the IP
address that the process will set as its main address in
the emulation mode. This address has no connection to the
real IP-stack and can be chosen freely.
FILES /etc/olsrd.conf
SEE ALSO
olsrd.conf(8).
Dec 2005 olsrd(8)