Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> writes: > 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?
Of the people? The schools? I have a google earth map I've been developing. I need to put a dozen more points on it though, two new towers, a bunch of schools... My current problem child is casa llanta http://www.casallanta.com/Home.html You can fetch the current google map from http://www.teklibre.com/~d/bando4barrios/b4barrios.kml but I hope to get around to updating it futher this weekend. Zoom in on Nicaragua. My house is "Casa Yanke" > Yes, it will, although I recommend 2.6.21 or later for any serious IPv6 > work. I concur. Regrettably my current radios are mostly 2.4 based, so I am trying to decide on a good, hackable, replacement for the buildout that tracks current kernel developments. > >> 2) I saw patches for tcpdump. Is anyone working on a dissector for >> wireshark? > > Not to my knowledge. It should be easy. I'll put it on my list. >> 3) Is radvd still necessary in a babel/ahcp environment? > > No, ahcpd takes care of configuration. Excellent. > >> 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 think I need a bit more range than this! > >> 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. > Why is ad-hoc required? Shouldn't you be able to pull statistics from an more conventional configuration? >> 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 Picture, no code? > 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 Thank you! That increases my comfort level a lot. > > 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. Ok. > > Note that AHCP normally uses stateless configuration for IPv6. If you > have any good ideas, I'm listening. Nsupdate is a rather big binary but I tend to view name service as a critical missing link for sanely understanding complex networks. I am sort of at the point where I can recognise my ipv6 prefixes at a glance but that's me.... At this point I plan to pair many routers with sheeva plugs, so I can gain real bind9 and other higher end services like squid. (See also the "pocobelle" postings on my blog) > >> 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. Ok... > >> I will continue my reading and compiling.... > > Please let us know how it goes. > > Juliusz > -- Dave Taht http://the-edge.blogspot.com "Most people know my father as the despotic warlord that rules europa but he does have his musing sparky qualities. Do you know he really loves waffles?" - Gil Wulfenbach _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
