For a simple experiment of making 4 Guruplugs talk to each other via batman, see here<http://projectdanube.pbworks.com/w/page/51790984/Guruplugs%20and%20BATMAN> .
I've been told though that olsr is still the way to go for large networks. Markus -- Project Danube: http://projectdanube.org Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium: http://personaldataecosystem.org/ On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > There are plenty of mesh protocols available - 802.11s, batman, olsr, > and my own fav babel. 802.11s operates at layer 2, is limited to 32 > nodes, and has other issues, so I tend to ignore it. batman-adv is > also layer too but much more flexible and interesting. > > But as for babel, I like it because it is a pure layer 3 protocol, it > handles ipv6 and ipv4, and has a pluggable metric. > > http://babelweb.kerneis.info:8080/ shows a live babel based mesh network. > as is http://carme.lab.bufferbloat.net:8080/ > > (via this software. > http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~kerneis/software/babelweb/ > > setting up a babel mesh on ad-hoc is simple, this is the simplest > possible demo... build and install babeld and ahcp on all nodes > > All connected nodes share the same ssid and channel. (for diversity > routing just change the channel) > > On all nodes, disable Network manager and anything else that automates > ip getting > > ifconfig wlan0 down > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc channel 1 essid babel # channel and essid > are arbitrary. Some devices won't let you do that in one pass > ifconfig wlan0 up > > babeld -D -z3 eth0 wlan0 > > ifconfig wlan0 172.20.0.1/32 # for the first node > ifconfig wlan0 172.20.0.2/32 # for the second node > ifconfig wlan0 172.20.0.3/32 # etc > > You can use the same ip addresses for your ethernet addresses > as life is figured out via the address/interface tuple. If you do > that, you can do transparent failover from ethernet to wireless. If > you don't, like on any routed network, you need to make sure your > address ranges/netmask are disjoint > > ifconfig eth0 172.20.0.1/32 # for the first node > ifconfig eth0 172.20.0.2/32 # for the second node > ifconfig eth0 172.20.0.3/32 # etc > > Now, it's easier to just setup an ahcp server to hand out addresses, > and use ahcp for setup, but that's too long to go into the margins > here. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Rick C. Hodgin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Matthias-Christian, > > > > I appreciate your response. If the research is available let's get it > out > > there and find the software and steps to setup mesh networks on FBX. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Rick C. Hodgin > > > > On 06/20/2012 08:50 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >> > >> On 2012-06-20 14:23, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: > >>> > >>> The protocol will establish what information is necessary to maintain a > >>> living, dynamic mesh, how to route packets, etc. I will also work on > >>> protocols for fixed placement FBXs (in a home, street lamp), as well as > >>> roaming FBXs (carrying one on a backpack, bicycle, car). > >> > >> I don't fully understand what you are trying to do here and haven't > >> looked at the software you created, but if you want to simulate wireless > >> mesh networks, I found that ns-3 [1] works (I had to use it during a > >> course on networks which included simulation wireless mesh networks and > >> simple evaluations of routing algorithms), so I guess you don't have to > >> write your own software. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Matthias-Christian > >> > >> [1] http://www.nsnam.org/ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Freedombox-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > > > > -- > Dave Täht > SKYPE: davetaht > http://ronsravings.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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