[Babel-users] Babel for use in a dense disconnected mesh network

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> [Service]
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/babeld -D

I'm certainly no systemd specialist, but should this either say
Type=forking, or not use the -D flag?

(If you use Type=forking, you should probably pass the PIDFile to systemd.)

> Thank you, that may be a better solution. I was hoping to avoid
> a solution which required multiple AP's or two-radio nodes,

You can use a single radio node if it can run both ad-hoc and AP at
the same time, but you'll probably find it confusing.

> I know hanging that many devices off one or two AP's is against convention,

I may be wrong, but I believe that in infrastructure mode that should
be fine.

The trouble with ad-hoc is that it was really not designed for that
many devices -- there's a lot of beaconing and global synchronisation
going on.  In infrastructure mode, only the APs are beaconing, and
STAs only synchronise with the particular AP they're associated with.

-- Juliusz