[Babel-users] Questions on the "new" AHCP

[ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)]

Hello,

I'm trying to test (again) AHCP on OpenWRT.

I say "again" because I used AHCP in a little testebed about 18 months
ago. The configuration was in a .dat file living in:

/usr/lib/ahcp/ahcp.dat

and it was only IPv6, and it was completely stateless without server/clients.
It all worked very good to me, and for a while I did not use it anymore....

I met Alex Morlang at Ninux Day and ad 26C3 and I've been told of many changes:

 * support for IPv4 configuration
 * ASCII configuration instead of the binary file

So, I'm reading the archives of this list but still there are some
questions that I can't find an answer.

Most of this questions are yes/no answers... probably some question
needs a short explanation:

1) AHCP is a stand alone program, so does not depend on olsr or babel,
so its configuration is autonomous, correct ? In openwrt I expect to
configure everything in /etc/conf/ahcp

2) is node_id necessary ?
I don't understand if this script: http://tinyurl.com/scriptfrom26c3
is necessary to have ahcp work ? So I have to set up something in
/etc/conf/system ?

3) If I use AHCP to configure ONLY IPv6, then everything is stateless
as in the old AHCP and I don't have to make a difference between
server instances and client instances ?
I see here: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/repos/ahcpd/README
"setting up a server" and "setting up a client"
But this client server difference is also when using only IPv6 ?

4) Il possible to use AHCP only IPv6 + OLSR IPv6 ?

5) How do I tell the mesh node what is the IPv6 prefix of the network
in /etc/config/ahcp ?

for now thats all :)

Thanks for clarifications :)

Saverio