On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:21:06PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > FYI > > Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network > > http://www.AREDN.org/ > > > > They're building a mesh network along the west coast of the > > U.S.A. starting in San Diego County. > > This reminds me of the question of mesh protocol. > > Which mesh protocol should we set up with the Freedombox? It is also a > question of what community we want the FreedomBox to join? > > There are heaps of protocols out there, and it is unclear to me which is > best and what kind of metrics we should use to decide how good they are. > One inspiring project is <URL: http://www.servalproject.org/ >, but they > seem to have made their own mesh protocol. What are your views on mesh > protocol? What is important to consider? What use case is most > important for us?
I would suggest using batman adv. There's a kernel module for it already existing in debian, and so no additional new packages need to be created. For a mesh system I would also suggest installing toxcore, bttrack and ZeroNet. I've recently been experimenting with that sort of mesh system, and it works well with everything end-to-end encrypted. Unfortunately those things aren't packaged for debian yet though, so that would be work needing to be done to get it into fbx. Another thing which I found in relation to mesh, which may be obvious but I'll mention it anyway, is to avoid trying to crowbar things designed for client-server (eg. IRC servers) into a mesh. That doesn't scale well. In the context of a mesh try to stick to things which are designed to be peer-to-peer.
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