Hi Dave, > I have been prototyping a new community wireless network down in > Nicaragua. The terrain is hilly and well suited for meshy solutions...
Do you have any photographs? > 1) Is anyone maintaining an openwrt repository that implements later > versions of babeld and AHCP? Gabriel? What's the OpenWRT situation? > (will it work with a 2.4.37 kernel?) Yes, it will, although I recommend 2.6.21 or later for any serious IPv6 work. > 2) I saw patches for tcpdump. Is anyone working on a dissector for > wireshark? Not to my knowledge. It should be easy. > 3) Is radvd still necessary in a babel/ahcp environment? No, ahcpd takes care of configuration. > 4) What radios are people using with babel? My current favourite are Foneras, but we've also had success with the Asus WL-500GP and the stock WRT. We're also using laptops, which is more convenient for testing and monitoring. > I've been looking over ubquity's new routers and thinking I would use > those (8MB flash, 32MB ram, MIMO) in the future, Careful here -- make sure that the wireless hardware supports ad-hoc mode. > 5) I do love the web interface to olsr. I can imagine something similar > could be built for babel... As you justly note, the user-friendly interface does not belong in Babel itself. The idea is that Babel is able to communicate with an external monitoring process over a TCP socket. There's one monitor that has been developed last year, http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/BabelTool.png There's no reason why the same interface couldn't be used by a web interface. To see what the raw, low-level interface is like, run babeld with "-g 33123" on the command line. Then do telnet localhost 33123 and you should see a mention of every change to babeld's internal tables. > 6) Is there a AHCP hook to hook into name service updates? No. Note that AHCP normally uses stateless configuration for IPv6. If you have any good ideas, I'm listening. > 7) What happens in the case of IPv4 multicast (for example, squid ICP > multicast)? There is no support for multicast in Babel. I do not know what it would take to get Babel to cooperate with something like PIM-SM. > I will continue my reading and compiling.... Please let us know how it goes. Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/babel-users