OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) Alternatives

OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) is described as 'OLSR is a Link State Routing Protocol (LSRP) implementation optimized for Mobile ad hoc networks on devices like routers, smartphones, or desktop computers' and is a Wi-Fi Hotspot in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) alternative is GNUnet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) are cjdns, OpenWISP, LibreMesh and Qaul.

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  1. GNUnet icon
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    GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing.

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  2. cjdns icon
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    Cjdns is a networking protocol and reference implementation, founded on the ideology that networks should be easy to set up, protocols should scale up smoothly, and security should be ubiquitous.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. OpenWISP icon
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    OpenWISP is a free and open-source platform for efficient IT network deployment, monitoring & management. It allows automation of many aspects of networks: from configuration to monitoring, RADIUS, hotspots, mesh and firmware upgrades, all backed by the reliability of the...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. LibreMesh icon
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    LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.

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    • Linux
    • OpenWrt
    • LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment
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  5. Qaul icon
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    Ad-hoc wireless mesh-network suite that harnesses the power of everyday devices such as computers and smartphones to create a Democratic, Non-Centralized, Mesh Network.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • C++
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  6. RadiusDesk icon
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    RADIUSdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS network management platform designed to simplify the administration of network authentication and accounting.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • OpenWrt
    • Docker
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  7. SMesh icon
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    SMesh is a seamless wireless mesh network being developed by the Distributed System and Networks Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
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  8. Digitata icon
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    Digitatas is a digital tree, a sapling to give technology to children of the Digital Generation. Under Open Hardware licensing by Open_Sailing and openet.org.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  9. dn42 icon
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    dn42 is a big dynamic VPN, which employs Internet technologies (BGP, whois database, DNS, etc). Participants connect to each other using network tunnels (GRE, OpenVPN, Tinc, IPsec) and exchange routes thanks to the Border Gateway Protocol.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. ninux icon
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    Ninux is an Italian wireless network community with the goal of creating and expanding a free, open and experimental computer network. It uses the OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) Protocol, an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  11. CCNx icon
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    The vision of Project CCNx® is to develop, promote, and evaluate a new approach to a communication architecture called content-centric networking.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Apple TV
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  12. Babel is a loop-avoiding distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with fast convergence properties. It is based on the ideas in DSDV, AODV and Cisco's EIGRP, but is designed to work well not only in wired networks but also in wireless mesh networks, and has been...

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    • Free
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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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