From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Maintainer of vis and batmand
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:53:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103100153.54915.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103100012.18223.onelektra@gmx.net>
Hi,
> I have been playing with batman-adv on the Mesh-Potato, and I will come up
> with a batman-adv based version of the MP firmware.
cool!
> However I have seen interesting new challenges. For example, if the MPs
> just get their IP configuration from a DHCP server this eliminates the
> process of configuring an IP for each device. That is cool. On the other
> hand, not knowing which IP is assigned to which device introduces new
> problems. It makes debugging radio problems and hardware issues much
> harder in the field. So picking up a phone and punching in a static IP via
> the keypad for each device is not all bad, if you just want to be able to
> call one MP from the other by dialling the last octet of its IP.
I don't really understand where you see the "new" challenges. If you require
static IP addresses you can deal with that in the same way you did without
batman-adv. You could configure alias interfaces, calculate an IP out of the
MAC or even use DHCP to assign always the same IP address to a certain client.
How your setup looks like very much depends on your requirements.
> Is there a special way of handling IPv4 ARP packets in batman-adv? I figure
> ARP must be much more robust in a Layer 3 mesh.
There is no special handling yet (expect for the ARQ mechanism for all
broadcast packets). I also suspect that ARP requires some more attention but
nobody has done that so far.
Cheers,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-09 17:35 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Maintainer of vis and batmand elektra
2011-03-09 22:41 ` Marek Lindner
2011-03-09 23:12 ` elektra
2011-03-10 0:53 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2011-03-10 6:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-03-10 10:17 ` elektra
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