【HELP！】About ad-hoc or mesh

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I'm a recent Openwrt noob, I'm glad to have found this forum, I hope you can help me answer my questions!
My question is, a hardware can support flashing openwrt, so does it support flashing packages like AODV, for the purpose of Ad-hoc

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Do you have a requirement for AODV or could Babel be an option too?
At least I know of Babel that's still under active research and i.e. support within bird2 is pretty good and under active development. It's even that good that it's preferred over the reference implementation.

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It is very kind of you.Thank you so much.
But maybe i can ask another question? I'm wondering if any hardware that supports flashing to openwrt systems can be flashed to a protocol similar to the Babel one you mentioned.

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Maybe something gets lost in translation...
With Openwrt you can install many different software packages. One one them is bird2 which supports a variety of routing protocols. For instance babel. But also ospf or bgp.
And if there is no requirement for AODV but only a distance vector protocol babal could be an alternative solution.

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If the hardware has enough flash. Please be aware that some devices are nowadays very limited with the amount of software you can install.

@constsheng it would be beneficial if you told us which device you're talking about.

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thanks a lot.
I want to choose MT7628 as my plan hardware

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But, actually I am not good at it.
Maybe you can recommend a couple of cost-effective modules.

Best regards
Sheng

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That's the SoC, Flash/RAM are external to it. The SoC is supported, but stay away from 8/64 devices.
Your first post gave the impression that you already have the hardware.

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I'm so lucky to get a reply from you
Best regards.

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actually, I am still finding the device to achieve the adhoc(or mesh).
I have just seen the module based on MT7628, its RAM is DDR2 128MB, and its Flash is 32MB.
If this Flash/RAM can satisfy my needs?

Best regards.
Sheng

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Afaik some modern wireless chips don't support adhoc any longer but 802.11s (mesh) is used by many people since a decade or so anyway.
You can just put any layer-3 routing daemon on a 802.11s mesh.