Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] horst and batman-adv

Antonio Quartulli
2013-04-09T09:01:01Z

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:57:17AM +0100, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> On 04/09/2013 07:28 AM, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:28:11AM -0400, cmsv wrote:
> >> I found about Horst a few years ago when i got to know olsr and it's
> >> usefulness for olsr mesh networks and recently decided to check it out
> >> again.
> >> Although i do see an option for batman i am not sure if it refers to
> >> batmand or batman-adv and as i wait for an answer from it's developer.
> >>
> >> My question is if there are any plans for a similar tool from open-mesh
> >> side.
> >> I am also curious to know if someone is using it with batman-adv or
> >> anything equivalent/similar or close ?
> >> What are our options.
> >>
> >> http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/
> >
> > Hello cmsv,
> >
> > I've used it once, but without any interaction with batman-adv or olsr.
> > I just looked for the pollution in the channels.
> >
> > How is it supposed to interact with the protocol?
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm the author of "horst". There is not much interaction with the
> protocol, except that the packets are marked as such, e.g. nodes which
> send OLSR packets are marked as OLSR nodes, nodes which send batman (L3)
> messages marked as batman nodes. It's quite easy to add the same for
> batman-adv, but it's not there at the moment.

Oh ok, thanks for the explanation Bruno!

So, as I suspected, there is nothing preventing from using it with batman-adv.
We will only miss the mark on the nodes.

@cmsv: so there is no need for "another tool", horst itself can be used
in a batman-adv network as well :)

Cheers,

--
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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