jtd wrote:
The OLSR i/f is for the backbone routing. running dhcp on this will open a new can of worms requiring dhcp forwarding etc.
we have to think that the mesh administration as similar to an ISP spreading its network. If an ISP baught a fixed number of IP's from its ISP, then they have to either allocate the existing IPs dynamically through dhcp or statically by allocating one to each customer. What OLSR is doing is dynamically calculating the routing for each neighborhood of the mesh.
Similarly, in a mesh what we have to do is to distribute the backbone WLAN network IPs, the way we want. So, I think, each mesh manager must adopt a policy.
If we use 10.0.0.0 network with mask 255.0.0.0 as the WLAN network. For us these are the addresses that we can use. We can give for each router say 16 clients (or even less) that is good enough. Some one may calculate how many routers and clients are possible. If we have to increase the number of routers, we do have to decrease the number of clients. But, since clients can also be connected by parallel LAN, the network can expand quite a lot.
As of now this is how I am understanding the mesh setup based on the last three weeks of experience. someone may correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Nagarjuna