Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-29 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> That's what version 0 of the AHCP protocol did -- it first configured >> IPv6 statelessly, then used unicast IPv6 to perform stateful IPv4 >> configuration. It didn't work very well: > So you just communicate over linklocal IPs and broadcast until the IPs are > set? Yes. (Link-local multica

Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-29 Thread Henning Rogge
Am Sonntag 29 November 2009 17:31:27 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek: > >> > (If the network would have a mesh-wide multicast implementation, you > >> > could just use it and forget about the forwarders, right ?) > >> > >> Bootstrapping issues. The main reason AHCP implements its own multicast > >> rou

Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-29 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> > (If the network would have a mesh-wide multicast implementation, you >> > could just use it and forget about the forwarders, right ?) >> Bootstrapping issues. The main reason AHCP implements its own multicast >> routing rather than relying on the IP layer is that at the point when >> you run

Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-29 Thread Henning Rogge
Am Sonntag 29 November 2009 15:40:23 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek: > > (If the network would have a mesh-wide multicast implementation, you > > could just use it and forget about the forwarders, right ?) > > Bootstrapping issues. The main reason AHCP implements its own multicast > routing rather th

Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-29 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> (If the network would have a mesh-wide multicast implementation, you could > just use it and forget about the forwarders, right ?) Bootstrapping issues. The main reason AHCP implements its own multicast routing rather than relying on the IP layer is that at the point when you run AHCP, the net

Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-27 Thread Henning Rogge
Am Freitag 27 November 2009 16:31:57 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek: > > If I got the README file right every node in a mesh needs to run AHCP in > > client mode and you can install any number of AHCP-servers. > > Yes. > > (Just to be pedantic: a mesh node can also be configured statically, in > whic

Re: [Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> If I got the README file right every node in a mesh needs to run AHCP in > client mode and you can install any number of AHCP-servers. Yes. (Just to be pedantic: a mesh node can also be configured statically, in which case it only needs to run ahcpd in forwarder mode.) > Every server needs it

[Babel-users] Question about AHCP

2009-11-27 Thread Henning Rogge
Hello, I have some questions about how AHCP-server distribution is working. If I got the README file right every node in a mesh needs to run AHCP in client mode and you can install any number of AHCP-servers. Every server needs it's own IP range which cannot be shared with other AHCP- servers.