Greetings, I'm working on building a mesh between a number of Ubuntu 10.04 boxes. I've managed to get babeld, ahcpd, and iptables all working together nicely, so I've got routes between all of them, internet gateways, the whole bit.
The problem is that I don't quite understand how the node running AHCP -C "mode server" should set up it's wlan0 (mesh) IP address... Leave it unconfigured, and none of the other nodes have a gateway IP out of the mesh. Configure nodeA:wlan0 as static 10.99.1.1/16 and ahcpd merrily issues a lease to the first ahcp client for... 10.99.1.1. At this point I have it working by configuring the ahcpd server node as 10.99.1.254/16 while distributing 10.99.1.0/24, but that seems like a bad solution since it will still willingly issue that (higher) IP address to an ahcp client (eventually). The question comes down to this: how do I keep an ahcp server from issuing a lease for it's own IP address? I can think of a number of solutions, but looking through the code I didn't pick up the scent of any of them. I can't even figure out how CeroWRT got it to behave correctly (Server is 172.30.42.224 with the prefix 172.30.42.224/27 and the first ahcp client correctly receives 172.30.42.225). Kenneth Finnegan blog.thelifeofkenneth.com _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
