OLSR daemon is an ad-hoc wireless mesh routing daemon.The Installation and Configuration of OLSR daemon 0.6.5.4 can be done using the following steps:

1. Download and extract OLSR package

$ wget http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.6/olsrd-0.6.5.4.tar.bz2
$ tar -jxf olsrd-0.6.5.4.tar.bz2
$ cd olsrd-0.6.5.4

2. Building and Installation

$ make
$ make install
$ make install install_libs

3. Configuring OLSR Daemon

Before the execution, the configuration file (/etc/olsrd.conf) needs to be modified.

$ line 23 : --"#DebugLevel 1"
$ line 23 : ++"DebugLevel 1"
$ line 232 : --"#PlParam "accept" "0.0.0.0"" 
$ line 232 : ++"PlParam "accept" "0.0.0.0""
$ line 253 : --"#Interface "<OLSRd-Interface1>" "<OLSRd-Interface2>"" 
$ line 253 : ++"Interface "wlan0""

4. Running the Application

$ ifconfig wlan0 down
$ iwconfig wlan0 mode-adhoc essid iist_mesh freq 2.427G	
$ ifconfig wlan0 10.10.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 up
$ olsrd -d 1