Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman advanced in openwrt

Jacob Marble
2009-06-12T17:14:51Z

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Marek Lindner<lindner_marek@yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Friday 12 June 2009 23:21:18 Jacob Marble wrote:
>> batman-advanced needs a howto.  I'm a pretty smart guy, but this took
>> me all week to figure out.  I'm still shaky and my mesh network isn't
>> working very well yet.  I would be willing to put together some more
>> detailed info for OpenWrt.
>
> It would be great if you would write something. We can either publish it on
> open-mesh.net or link to your site. Christoph Pilka started writing a howto
> (in German) but the link it not accessable anymore
> (http://debian.asconix.com/batman-advanced-openwrt-howto).

I have read the Google translation, and it's pretty good, but not
simple enough for my simply self. I would be *very happy* to write
something.

>> Also, it's tedious to deal with /proc/net/batman-adv/*  It's cool in
>> hacky sort of way, but tedious.  Is there any way that this could be
>> manipulated with a script?  brctl is a nice interface, how about
>> bactl?  "bactl show originators"  "bactl show interfaces"  "bactl set
>> log_level 15"  "bactl help"  Of course, leave the /proc interface for
>> hard-core types. ;)
>
> The idea sounds interesting. We could integrate these feature into the
> battools in order to not create another tool. What do you think ?
>

Sure, I have already started something, written in sh. I'll post it here later.