[Babel-users] newbie questions

[Kirk Reiser]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:12:36PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Well, if all visitors run ahcp, they'll get an address automatically (and
> help propagate ahcp messages); if they run babeld, they'll get routes
> automatically (and help propagate babel message and route packets); if they
> run both, everything is perfect and dhcp is not needed.

Well most are running neither.  It is just a small family network
which I want to hopefully expand over time as my neighbours and
visiters become comfortible with an open network.  Most transient
folks are running iphones, windows phones/laptops and android phones
which as far as I know have no ahcp or babeld packages available for
yet.

>> Oh, and what do I do with my current interfaces file entry for ifup on
>> the machines running ahcp in client mode.
>
> Hmm, what kind of machines are you talking about: OpenWrt routers or
> desktop computers?
> - OpenWrt routers: I advise you to chose IP addresses statically, and setup
>  ahcp in forwarder mode (rather than client mode).  This is much easier to
>  administrate your network.
> - Desktop (or laptop) computers: disable network-manager and every
>  automatic script.  Then, tweak the following script to suit your needs:
>  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/wifi-autoconf.sh

Mostly I am usea usb 802.11N tied to a desktop top as my router to the
outside world.  I have four other laptops as my mobile nodes all
running debian and I'm about to set-up a couple of cheap little Fon
computer/relays when I get openwrt on them to help spread out the
network a bit.  My main question was related to transient mobile nodes
which as I pointed out aren't usually running linux and wouldn't know
a ad-hoc from a managed mode network or even care.

> How does it work with olsr?

I may not have it set-up correctly but I just edit the olsr.conf file
to select the interfaces I want it to run on for my personal nodes and
everything else is just radvd and dhcpd because I never heard of ahcp
before a few weeks ago.  Transient machines just seem to use the
ad-hoc network normally without knowing anything about olsr except one
or two iphone users I've set-up with their iphone package.  It would
be nice to have an easy to install babled and ahcp set of packages for
iphone and android and I suppose windows machines/phones. 'wink'

   Kirk

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