hi , I'm a junior student from China !

I want to buy several routers that can run openwrt and can support AODV(Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing?AODV),ad hoc,mesh network or

protocols. I can find the devices that support openwrt from the site  http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start .

But I don't know how to tell whether the devices can support AODV, ad hoc ,mesh network/protocols.  Could you tell me ?

If the devices can support these network/protocols modes, how could I do to setup them ?

Thank you !

(Last edited by openwrt_learner on 21 Apr 2011, 17:16)

The key is to have at least 8MB of flash or USB support.

I think you can start it from "OLSR Mesh - OpenWrt Wiki" and "B.A.T.M.A.N - OpenWrt Wiki".

Two more selections.

WING
http://www.wing-project.org/

Babel
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/

All of them are already contained in openwrt's packages. You can start very easily.

Good luck.

Thank you for your quick reply ! If a router has a 8MB of flash and support openwrt , can it run aodv,mesh? Does this mean aodv,mesh etc network modes don't rely on the hardware platform ,but just rely on  openwrt ? Thank you !

any suggestion will be really appreciated !

OpenWrt / AODV on openwrt
AODV on Linksys (based on OpenWrt WhiteRussian)
How I set up AODV with Openwrt on a Linksys WRT54G router (Dummy’s guide) {Part I} « It’s all about …
Research and Implementation of the Ad Hoc Routing Protocol Based on Openwrt

Actually they rely on an open platform with ad-hoc/ahdemo/802.11s capable wireless drivers - it could be a Debian or even FreeBSD as well.
OpenWrt is a popular choice for meshing as it is an open Linux distribution that happens to run on many commodity routers which are cheaper and often easier to deploy than "bigger" hardware you'd need for a full Linux distribution like Debian or an OS like *BSD.

Hi, I have TP-Link WA701ND hardware version 2. Hardware version 2 is not supported for this device but I achieved to boot it by firmware of WR741ND. And I achieved to run 802.11s and BATMAN-adv routing protocols on this device. When I looked at the ToH, it is stated that this device has 4 MB Flash memory on it for hardware version 1. So I checked the memory on this version, it is also 4 MB. Is the information that device should have 8 MB on it, an old information or do we need it for other protocols?