Using OpenWRT with OLSR to connect routers using HNA

Question

As you may assume I need a little assistance here.

I have four routers (TP-Link WDR3600) that I need to use to create an Ad-Hoc network. Currently I am only dealing with two of the four routers for simplicity. All of the routers have OpenWRT Chaos Calmer 15.05 OS installed on them and all of them are running the OLSR routing protocol. My question is super simple but the answer eludes me and I would love some direction on the matter.

How do I get these two (and eventually four) routers to talk to each other using HNA (Host and Network Association) and the setup specified above?

Edit: they need to be connected to each other wirelessly too. End edit.

I have followed this specific guide to the T but as soon as it gets to "HOW TO Step 4" the guide breaks down in terms of application because the file they point to (/etc/olsrd.conf) does not exist in my setup. When continuing anyway and running "olsrd start" it spits out: Notice how it says "Could not find specific config file /etc/olsrd/olsrd.conf" and how that differs from earlier when it asked me to modify "/etc/olsrd.conf"

In addition, the folder "/etc/olsrd" also does not exist in case you are wondering. I'm at a loss regarding this. Does anybody have any input on the matter? I'm certain that I'm missing something simple.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Can you try to run :

/usr/sbin/olsrd -d -f /etc/olsrd.conf 

Answer 2

I had to create /etc/olsrd.conf using the template provided and uncomment the third line of /etc/config/olsrd. I would also recommend installing olsrd-mod-httpinfo using opkg like he recommends.

One thing I noticed is that he never specifies giving the wireless interface (wlan0 in my case) an IP address to communicate with the mesh. Since I believe that is required, I had to use LuCI to give the interface an IP. I think I have my setup working but I am trying to get my new OpenWRT node to communicate with my previous DD-WRT nodes right now. Might just have to change them all to OpenWRT since it offers more "customization" due to it's bare-bones type configuration.