Dear all, Over the last few months, I've been working on shncpd, an implementation of the IETF Homenet protocol stack. Shncpd is described on
http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/homenet/shncpd.html Oh, before I forget -- I'm looking for a better name. Shncpd implements HNCP (the Homenet Configuration Protocol), DHCPv4 and IPv6 Router Advertisements. In order to be useful, it needs to be combined with a suitable routing protocol -- such as Babel. Unlike AHCP, which was a client-server protocol, HNCP is completely decentralised -- edge routers announce "delegated" prefixes into the network, and HNCP nodes negotiate addresses between themselves. Shncpd hasn't been tuned for mesh networks yet -- Henning and I are working on it. This might require some protocol extensions, we don't know yet. If you decide to try it out in your mesh, we're curious. Quick HOWTO. If you've got a mesh network running Babel, add the following to the babeld.conf files of nodes running shncpd: redistribute proto 43 allow Then, on each border router (Internet gateway), say shncpd -E 2001:db8:42::/48 -N 2001:db8:42::53 -M wlan0 -M wlan1 where -E is the prefix you wish to distribute in your mesh, and -N is the address of your DNS server. On ordinary mesh routers, just run shncpd -M wlan0 -M wlan1 and on client machines, say shncpd -s /usr/local/bin/shncpd-script.sh -M wlan0 -M wlan1 There's a sample shncpd-script.sh suitable for my laptop in the git repository; you'll probably want to modify it. Enjoy, -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
