Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-07 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hey Arc, On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Arc Riley wrote: > > Excellent! Is there a website for your project? > > > Not yet, in the next two weeks. > > > Are you fully committed to Batman or still in the evaluation phases? > > > There's room to be swayed, but batman-adv seems to be

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-06 Thread Antoine van Gelder
On 06 May 2009, at 09:18 , Marek Lindner wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 13:48:03 Antoine van Gelder wrote: http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/ The project is very young and still under heavy development but it does have working code using client-side Javascript & the OpenStreetMap libraries

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-06 Thread Marek Lindner
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 13:48:03 Antoine van Gelder wrote: >http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/ > > The project is very young and still under heavy development but it > does have working code using client-side Javascript & the > OpenStreetMap libraries to draw mesh maps from the vis server. Ve

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-06 Thread Antoine van Gelder
On 06 May 2009, at 07:15 , Marek Lindner wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 02:11:57 Arc Riley wrote: I haven't found any such video on the website. Is the vis server setup for batman-adv or just the layer 3 batman? Is the protocol used for nodes to announce their status documented? We're

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-06 Thread Marek Lindner
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 02:29:01 Charles Wyble wrote: > I am the founder and CTO of the socalwifi.net project. We are currently > evaluating Batman and OLSRd for a major roll out across the southland. That sounds interesting. Please let us know about the outcome and the reasoning no matter what

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-06 Thread Marek Lindner
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 02:11:57 Arc Riley wrote: > I haven't found any such video on the website. Is the vis server setup for > batman-adv or just the layer 3 batman? Is the protocol used for nodes to > announce their status documented? > > We're building a desktop/mobile app using OpenStreetMa

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Arc Riley
> Excellent! Is there a website for your project? Not yet, in the next two weeks. Are you fully committed to Batman or still in the evaluation phases? There's room to be swayed, but batman-adv seems to be the best suited for our needs right now. The primary concern is that the layer 2 branch

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Charles Wyble
Arc Riley wrote: We're setting up batman-adv on open-mesh.com OM1P routers and unidirectional antennas to connect homes and businesses across the city. Excellent! Is there a website for your project? I am the founder and CTO of the socalwifi.net project. We are curren

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Arc Riley
> Cool ! May I ask who "we" is and how you would describe the current status > ? We're a new cooperative, the status is primarily planning with a few nodes on the mesh and test builds. We're hopefully going to merge the previous effort from DynDNS to build a layer 3 mesh using Meraki Minis into

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Carcellelist
Hi Arc, > What kind of traffic throughput is the kernel module capable of? Does the > module multithread properly for multicore utilization? Would a FPGA > variant be needed to have a "mesh switch" or would a high-end multicore ARM > be reasonably able to handle say an 8-port gigabit mesh switch

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Charles Wyble
Some folks want to deploy a centralized architecture. :) There are many many uses for technology. That's the beauty of it. I'm guessing that the goal of the deployment is for an ISP type architecture. Dennis Bartsch wrote: Hello, > From: arcri...@gmail.com > [...] Would a FPGA variant be

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Dennis Bartsch
Hello, > From: arcri...@gmail.com > [...] Would a FPGA variant be needed to have a "mesh switch" or would > a high-end multicore ARM be reasonably able to handle say an 8-port gigabit > mesh switch? > [...] What for does one want an 8-port gigabit mesh-switch? meshing with batman-adv is a to

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Marek Lindner
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 22:08:44 Arc Riley wrote: > We're setting up batman-adv on open-mesh.com OM1P routers and > unidirectional antennas to connect homes and businesses across the city. Cool ! May I ask who "we" is and how you would describe the current status ? > Is there currently a multicas

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv use in Manchester NH

2009-05-05 Thread Arc Riley
We're setting up batman-adv on open-mesh.com OM1P routers and unidirectional antennas to connect homes and businesses across the city. I've read the protocol docs, but a few key questions about the current kernel implementation; Is there currently a multicast protocol or method for a node on the