Hi, On 31-08-19, Rich Brown wrote: > I'm delighted to see babeld enter the OpenWrt mainline. This is a great day > indeed - the culmination of a huge amount of work.
Maybe I was not very clear: babeld itself has been part of OpenWrt for a long time, I was just referring to the update from babeld 1.8.x to babeld 1.9.x! > I agree that documentation is an important piece of the entire product. And > the OpenWrt wiki page still needs work, even though I bet that every word > there is true. So far, this documentation is indeed aimed at people who already know that they want to use babeld, and who have already read and understood (almost) every word of the babeld manual page. > My biggest concern is that it's missing an introductory section that gives a > motivation for using babeld. The text needs to help the new reader answer, > "Does babeld offer something for me?" Other questions... "Why should I care? > Why would I use babeld? What situations/configurations would benefit from > babeld, and how would my life be better? Why choose babeld in preference to > those other mesh-y packages such as Open-Mesh, OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N?" > > That section doesn't need to be long: two or three paragraphs is probably > enough. In fact, shorter is better. I am happy to help with wordsmithing, but > I don't know enough about babel/babeld to get started... Feel free to go ahead and write something like this on the wiki, you are apparently in a good position to produce something accessible! However, don't try to explain why somebody would need a routing protocol / daemon: it certainly won't fit in two paragraphs, and it's much more general than Babel (maybe this should go on wikipedia?) Looking around a bit, I found a few pages that could serve as an introduction to routing and wireless mesh networks: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/routing https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV4/MeshGuide https://www.shadowandy.net/2016/03/building-wireless-mesh-network.htm And this is a nice Babel documentation from the folks in Montréal: https://wiki.reseaulibre.ca/documentation/babel/ More generally, Babel lacks some easily accessible tutorials. Again looking around a bit, I found just a few, but nothing very detailed or recent: http://www.makikiweb.com/ipv6/babel.html https://witestlab.poly.edu/blog/babel-a-loop-avoiding-distance-vector-routing-protocol/ http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/2015/01/19/babel.html https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/homenet/howto.html Baptiste
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