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Friday, June 25, 2004

Setting up mobile mesh on Mandrake Linux

1. Download the source code and read documentation

This can be found here
Mobile mesh information

You need to download iproute2, GraphViz and MobileMesh

You can also find a local copy at
edna ftp server

2. Make sure that you are using g++ 2.96 compiler and libraries

Remove with RpmDrake

libstdc++5-devel-3.2.2-3mdk
gcc-c++-3.2.2-3mdk

Install using RpmDrake

libstdc++2.10-devel-2.96-0.82mdk
gcc2.96-c++-2.96-0.82mdk

3. Unzip, compile and install graphviz, iproute2 and mobilemesh

eg. for mobile mesh
gunzip < mobilemesh-1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd mobilemesh-1.0
make depends
make
su to root
make install

4. Read the documentation for mobile mesh to learn how to use it

mmdiscover
mmrp
mmborder
mmrpvizr

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