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 === Babel === === Babel ===
  
-{{wst>expand}}+[[https://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/arednHow-toGuides/babel.html|Babel]] is a modern open routing protocol built for networks that are messy in the real world: mixed wired and wireless links, changing topology, and nodes that may come and go without much warning. In standards terms it is a loop-avoiding distance-vector protocol, but the practical takeaway is simpler: Babel is designed to be lightweight, fast to adapt, and unusually good at coping with unreliable links, which is why it has become one of the better-known open protocols for wireless mesh networking. Read [[rfc>8966|RFC 8966]] for more information. 
  
  
 === OLSR === === OLSR ===
  
-{{wst>expand}}+OLSR, or Optimized Link State Routing, is an older open routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. It came out of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) world, where devices form a network on the fly by connecting directly and relaying traffic for one another without fixed infrastructure. OLSR’s key idea was reducing routing chatter by designating certain nodes as relays, so not every device had to repeat every update. 
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 +That made OLSR one of the defining early open protocols in the history of mesh networking. It is less modern and efficient than newer options like Babel, but it remains an important example of how decentralized networks learned to keep themselves stitched together. Read [[rfc>3626|RFC 3626]] for more information. 
  
  
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