-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 10:12 AM, Dave Taht 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
There are over 70 mesh routing protocols; not all of them have been implemented (a lot are just whitepapers) but maybe a dozen have. > nodes, and has other issues, so I tend to ignore it. batman-adv is > also layer too but much more flexible and interesting. It's also a little wiggy in the field. Granted, this was in early 2011. > 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. It's also the most resilient we've tested in the field, as well as easy to troubleshoot. That's why Byzantium went with it. > possible demo... build and install babeld and ahcp on all nodes It's also possible to use APIPA addressing on nodes and have it work. > 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 The Atheros chipsets we've been testing on don't. It's fairly easy to make the configuration utility robust enough to work around that. > 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. If you're planning the construction of a mesh, ahcpd works well. If you're doing it more organically I don't recommend it. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Red Adair Linux, for what we do most of the time." --Paul Martin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/kv5oACgkQO9j/K4B7F8HbvACfTpn+cb/Uj13u2ZVYpGl9hp5F cFoAn29gFDYBkgI25MejXu7tvB/8pcCm =QWdY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
