[B.A.T.M.A.N.] alfred and ipv6

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] alfred and ipv6

[cmsv]

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As i am about to try out alfred i already face myself with a couple issues:

http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Alfred
http://git.open-mesh.org/alfred.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/master:/README

I the past i had removed ipv6 support since i do not need it and it
helps trimming up the final image. (most routers and people still use 4
mb flash)

I would like to use alfred and would also like to know if compiling the
image with
<*> kmod-ipv6................................................... IPv6
support

Leaving out :
[ ] ping6
[ ] Enable IPv6 support
[ ] Enable IPv6 support in packages

will allow Alfred to work as intended. As anyone tested?

Another problem with using ipv6 is the final image size.
kmod-ipv6_3.3.8-1_ar71xx.ipk  is at least 138K
An that is quite a bit ...

What are exactly the reasons why alfred does not use ipv4 ?


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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] alfred and ipv6

[Simon Wunderlich]

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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:30:13PM -0400, cmsv wrote:
> As i am about to try out alfred i already face myself with a couple issues:
> 
> http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Alfred
> http://git.open-mesh.org/alfred.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/master:/README
> 
> I the past i had removed ipv6 support since i do not need it and it
> helps trimming up the final image. (most routers and people still use 4
> mb flash)
> 
> I would like to use alfred and would also like to know if compiling the
> image with
> <*> kmod-ipv6................................................... IPv6
> support
> 
> Leaving out :
> [ ] ping6
> [ ] Enable IPv6 support
> [ ] Enable IPv6 support in packages
> 
> will allow Alfred to work as intended. As anyone tested?

You will only need basic support for alfred. I don't know if "Enable IPv6 support"
is mandatory or not. alfred relies on link local addresses configured on your
interface.
> 
> Another problem with using ipv6 is the final image size.
> kmod-ipv6_3.3.8-1_ar71xx.ipk  is at least 138K
> An that is quite a bit ...

You can disable IPv4 in return. :D

Just kidding ... but IPv6 will become more popular, we can't deny it forever.
Anyway, alfred is built on top of IPv6 link local multicast and there is no
plan to change that.

> 
> What are exactly the reasons why alfred does not use ipv4 ?

We wanted to have alfred working without requiring user configuration of the
interface (IP addresses etc). This left the choice to use either another
Ethertype and special Ethernet frames, or IPv6 multicast. As we did not want
to add more custom Ethernet types (some switches don't like that, and alfred
is payload traffic and does not just stays in the Ad-Hoc WLAN), and IPv6 
allows longer messages due to built-in fragmentation, we decided to go for
IPv6.

Cheers,
	Simon



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