Quoting Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi (2015-10-08 14:09:40) > On 2015-10-08 at 13:25:57 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Do any mesh networking protocol work reliably today without > > administration at all? Any of those in Debian? With the configuration > > currently setup by the Debian package? > > yes, yes, and yes, sort-of, but not really in an useful way if > standalone
Great! > The protocol I know best is batman-adv, and in this case I'm sure that > it doesn't really require administration after it has been setup and > it is in Debian. > > Configuring it requires adding one simple stanza in > /etc/network/interfaces which can probably be added by scanning for > existing network interfaces, so it may be done without user > intervention. > > The reason why this may not really be enought to be useful is that > this way batman is looking for other batman nodes on the local (layer > 2) networks it knows about, and providing a network interface which > talks with them and further nodes, and that's it. > > This interface must be configured in a way that is compatible with the > rest of the network, and there must be a way for the user to reach the > available services. > > This may also happen in a way that doesn't require intervention from > the user if there is a server elsewhere on the mesh which provides > ipv6 autoconfiguration data and a DNS, but that one must be configured > by some human and probably requires administration. ...but if I understand you correctly, I would consider FreedomBox that node which provides the infrastructural part. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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