From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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 07:58:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310065858.GA12886@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103100012.18223.onelektra@gmx.net>
> 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.
Hi Elektra
An option would be to move to IPv6 and use stateless address
autoconfiguration, where the MAC address is used to form part of the
IPv6 address. You can then easily see from the IP address which device
it is, assuming you know its MAC address.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 6:58 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
2011-03-10 6:58 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2011-03-10 10:17 ` elektra
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