MeshDriver 1.0.7 released

The release contains support for:

• automatic discovery and use of all network devices (wireless and wired)
• automatic neighbor and route discovery
• reactive routing based on AODV routing protocol
• optional link cost metric for enabling link quality/cost aware routing
• fragmentation of data packets
• 128-bit AES encryption
• authentication
• compatibility with existing wired/wireless networks
• routing of non-mesh device traffic through mesh network
• superpacketing

Requirements for Windows version:

• Windows XP operating system, with Service Pack 2 installed

Requirements for Linux version:

• Linux operating system, 2.6 series kernel (required kernel features: CONFIG_PACKET, CONFIG_UNIX, CONFIG_TUN)

NOTES FOR RELEASE 1.0.7:

• Routing based on link cost has been added to AODV. This feature does not affect normal AODV operation and can be activated with a new mdcfg command.
• New mdcfg command: ‘aodvcostdelay’ enables AODV cost-based routing.
• New mdcfg command: ’setlinkcost’ sets the cost per link per port.
• New mdcfg command: ‘aodvrefreshinterval’ sets how often routes are refreshed.
• New mdcfg command: ‘getlinktimeout’.
• New mdcfg command: ‘getdefaultauth’.