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

Marek Lindner
2009-06-12T16:59:52Z

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).

> 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 ?

Regards,
Marek