Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of HowTo/UsingAODV/AODVonORBIT

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+ = AODV on ORBIT =
+
+The aim of this effort is to run the AODV routing protocol for an Ad-hoc network of arbitrary topology on ORBIT. The topology of the Ad-hoc network can be provided by the experimenter or one can use from a set of available topologies.
+
+The demo below shows how to run and AODV on a minimal Ad-hoc network of three nodes.
+
+ === Initial installation ===
+The nodes to be used in the network must be imaged with __tmp/node-7-7-2006-09-20-01-44-36.ndz__. This image has AODV-UU-0.9.1 installed. It also contains the mackill module. This module is used to emulate an Ad-hoc network by supressing packets from desired nodes. This image also contains the modified madwifi-0.9.2 driver with the BSSID problem solved.
+
+{{{
+imageNodes <node list> tmp/node-7-7-2006-09-20-01-44-36.ndz
+}}}
+
+ === Network creation - using Mackill ===
+Mackill is a MAC filter wich is used to emulate Ad-hoc network topologies on ORBIT. The mackill module creates a mackill file in /proc/net on each node. The nodes which should not be heard are specified in this file. This is done by echoing the MAC addresses of such nodes into this file.
+To add a MAC address to mackill,
+
+{{{
+echo - <MAC address> > /proc/net/mackill
+}}}
+
+To remove a node from this list,
+
+{{{
+echo + <MAC address> > /proc/net/mackill
+}}}
+
+ === Running AODV ===
+AODV can be run as a module on a node using,
+
+{{{
+aodvd -l -r <# of seconds>
+}}} 
+
+The ''-l'' option enables logging of all events to /var/net/aodvd.log and ''-r'' enables logging of the routing tables to /var/net/aodvd.rtlog.
+
+ === Network tests ===
+To use AODV to run experiments on ORBIT:
+1. Image nodes as per the topology required.
+2. Emulate the topology using mackill on each node to block packets from non-neighbouring nodes.
+3. Run AODV on each node.
+4. Use ping or iperf for experiments on the Ad-hoc network and to perform any measurements required.
+
+ === Ongoing work ===
+The ongoing effort to integrate AODV involves automation of mackill so that the experimenter can provide the network topology in a file and create it on ORBIT without having to manually modify /proc/net/mackill on each node.
+
+ === Resources ===
+* http://core.it.uu.se/core/index.php/AODV-UU - AODV Uppasala University implementation
+
+* http://www.docs.uu.se/docs/research/projects/scanet/aodv/aodvuu.shtml - Mackill (scroll to the middle section - this is from the old AODV-UU site)