On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:57:17AM +0100, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On 04/09/2013 07:28 AM, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:28:11AM -0400, cmsv wrote: > >> I found about Horst a few years ago when i got to know olsr and it's > >> usefulness for olsr mesh networks and recently decided to check it out > >> again. > >> Although i do see an option for batman i am not sure if it refers to > >> batmand or batman-adv and as i wait for an answer from it's developer. > >> > >> My question is if there are any plans for a similar tool from open-mesh > >> side. > >> I am also curious to know if someone is using it with batman-adv or > >> anything equivalent/similar or close ? > >> What are our options. > >> > >> http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/ > > > > Hello cmsv, > > > > I've used it once, but without any interaction with batman-adv or olsr. > > I just looked for the pollution in the channels. > > > > How is it supposed to interact with the protocol? > > Hello! > > I'm the author of "horst". There is not much interaction with the > protocol, except that the packets are marked as such, e.g. nodes which > send OLSR packets are marked as OLSR nodes, nodes which send batman (L3) > messages marked as batman nodes. It's quite easy to add the same for > batman-adv, but it's not there at the moment.
Oh ok, thanks for the explanation Bruno! So, as I suspected, there is nothing preventing from using it with batman-adv. We will only miss the mark on the nodes. @cmsv: so there is no need for "another tool", horst itself can be used in a batman-adv network as well :) Cheers, -- Antonio Quartulli ..each of us alone is worth nothing.. Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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