Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred Open Beta

[Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>]

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Hey Guido,

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:49:37AM -0300, Gui Iribarren wrote:
> On 05/19/2013 07:50 AM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> >To those of you who actively follow the recent discussions it may come to no
> >big surprise that it was decided to remove the vis functionality from the
> >batman-adv kernel module in a not so distant future (with the next
> >compatibility bump). There always has been a debate whether or not such
> >functionality belongs into the kernel or not. The in-kernel solution bears the
> >disadvantage of being rather inflexible because every change has to go through
> >the official Linux channels. With the growing interest in flooding the network
> >with arbitrary data in addition to the visualization data realizing a solution
> >in user-space became the obvious choice.
> >
> >A new, more general user-space daemon which takes over the old vis
> >functionality and much more, called A.L.F.R.E.D. (Almighty Lightweight Fact
> >Remote Exchange Daemon) came to life. Alfred is capable of distributing
> >information over your mesh network in a decentralized fashion, for example
> >graph information for vis, but also any other data which appears to be useful
> >- like hostnames, phone books, administration information, DNS information,
> >the local weather forecast, etc while requiring (almost) zero configuration.
> >
> >As the development on the core functionality has been finished and alfred works
> >(at least on the developers boxes), we would like to call for an open beta!
> >There are bleeding edge downloads and an OpenWRT feed available [1]. Please
> >try alfred and report bugs, send patches and inform us about your experiences.
> 
> Cheerful Simon,
> finally, i have just taken the time to test alfred, and it looks
> pretty good, binary cli is dead simple to use, thanks a lot!!
> 
> http://chef.mesh.altermundi.net/downloads/r36139/ar71xx/packages/alfred_2012.0.0-5_ar71xx.ipk

Thanks a lot for testing and reporting back!
> 
> i'll take a stab at making a bat-hosts generator (are there any
> published efforts along these lines already?), but first i gave a
> quick look into current vis generator, and i observed some glitches
> 
> * where does this 00:00:00:00:00:00 mac come from?
> * double interfaces don't seem to be properly detected or something
> 

Yeah, that is indeed a glitch. There was a bug that only the first interface
MAC was filled correctly, and other interfaces were just reported as
00:00:00:00:00:00. This should be fixed upstream and in the openwrt package
(release 6), please give it a try!

The double interfaces issue should be fixed with that too, I hope. :)

Cheers,
	Simon

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