> > 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!
Well, then, I'm delighted to have babeld 1.9.1 in the OpenWrt mainline :-) >> 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! Thank you for your confidence. Just because I took a stab at the installation process on the Homenet page doesn't mean I really know what I'm talking about :-) The links you cite (below) are helpful. Maybe I'll post a draft here for review. (It'll be a week or so before this comes to the top of the list.) Rich > 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 _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
