Please forgive me if this question has already been addressed.

I have Kamikaze 7.07 and OLSRd running on seven WRT54GL's. Unencrypted they run beautifully, no problems at all.

I would really like to encrypt the network though... How can I do this...?

Would I create a VPN, or use PSK,2,WPA,2...?

I have tried to set the encryption options in the wireless config files with no luck...

I am using adhoc mode obviously and OLSR runs over the wl0 if, nas is installed, etc.

Thanks in advance...

Hi !

I played with olsr on WRT54GL with FreiFunk firmware but got strange network/packets  losses.
Now I am trying with Kamikaze 7.07 but no much success so far ...

Could you please write step by step how did you configure olsr
(starting from setting up ad-hoc wireless ) ?

( Then I would probably help you with security )

Thanks

Hi Alex,

A step by step ay...

I also had a few issues getting OLSR working on Kamikaze 7.07... After many hours of hair pulling, I finally cracked it...

1) Edit the wireless conf file

option channel <needs to be the same across all olsrd routers>
option ssid <needs to be the same across all olsrd routers>
option network wifi  // the tag I gave in the wireless config file
option mode adhoc

// and currently,

option encryption none

2) Edit the network conf file

// Add a wifi section

#### WIFI configuration
config interface wifi
         option proto static
         option ipaddr <your chosen IP address for the wifi if>
         option netmask <your netmask for wifi if>

3) Now to install OLSRD...
// For the life of me, I could not get OLSRD V 0.5.0-2 to work... So, install version 0.5.0-1 - it works for me...

4) Edit the /etc/olsrd.conf file
// uncomment the following lines, change the config values as you see fit

Hna4
{
}

Hna6
{
}

AllowNoInt    yes
TosValue    16
Willingness        4
UseHysteresis    no
LinkQualityLevel    2
LinkQualityWinSize    10
Pollrate    2.00
NicChgsPollInt  3.0
TcRedundancy    0
MprCoverage    1
LoadPlugin "olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.3"
{
}
Interface "wl0"

5) create the link to the /etc/init.d/olsrd file for startup on boot
ln -s /etc/init.d/olsrd /etc/rc.dS50olsrd

6) Reboot router... Should see lots of activity on your wifi link led, assuming you have one )

if you type in 'route', and assuming you have more than one olsrd enabled router, you should see the other routers listed in the routing table...

Hope this helps,
James

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Like all things, when you know how to do it, it's easy... If only I knew everything, or at least something...!

Hi again Alex,

Sorry, I just reread your message...

Not sure if you know already where the config files are kept...
So, the network and wireless config files are under the /etc/config directory

Let me know if you'd like more info...

Thanks , looks like I've got olsr working . I've installed ver 0.5.2-1 . Now looking for missed olsrd_txtinfo plugin...