Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Mesh with access from wifi and lan. Which is the Only True Way?

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 22:44:36 Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> I am using OpenWrt Backfire.

Ok.


> One sign that I am using nonstandard setting is that a non-batman node
> will end up in a throw route of the batman nodes. But if it should work
> without firewall, then I will be happy with my current setup.

A throw route is no problem by itself. It only means that the Linux kernel 
will leave the current table to check the next one for a suitable routing 
entry. 

If you are interested in understanding the routing techniques used by batman:
http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/RoutingVodoo


> What I am seeing is that traffic from local wifi net does not "go down" to the
> tunnels, but goes through the batman nodes untunneled. Maybe I have to set
> up some routes from the local wifi net? For your reference here is the
> network setup again (N is the node number, ip of the node/netmask len):
> backbone batman network: 10.42.0.N/24 (for batman nodes)
> local wifi net: 10.42.N.1/24 (for non-batman users, dhcp served from the
> node in force mode)
> local lan: 10.43.N.1/24 (for wired users, DHCP served from the node)

Does each node announce the "local wifi net" via HNA ? You will need these 
announcements to make the routing towards this addresses work. As soon as 
batmand knows that it is responsible for a certain IP address space it will 
add the appropriate routing entries for you.
Again, we have a document describing the process:
http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/AnnouncingNetworks


> Páty, Hungary. We are experimenting with participatory democracy, and
> this is one of the side effects:)

Cool! Good luck with your experiments. :-)

Regards,
Marek