A Graphical User Interface

To offer a more intuitive and interactive way to get status updates from olsrd, a Graphical User Interface(GUI) client-application has been implemented. This is in reality an OLSR packet analyzer that receives all OLSR traffic and maintains its own internal databases. Based on this, information about the MANET is displayed in various forms.

The GUI application is very much work in progress, and lots of features could be added and improved. It is not very well suited for debugging olsrd as it is not 100% reliable due to lack of extensive testing. As an example, the command watch 'route -n' in a shell will display a dynamically updated list of kernel routes which is fully reliable whereas the routes displayed in the GUI could be erroneous.

All GUI source-code is located in the front-end/src directory in the olsrd source code hierarchy.