[Babel-users] Some thoughts about Babel (feature requests)

[Henning Rogge]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>> We forked babeld and have included an ipc process which allows us to add
>> and remove interfaces while babeld is running:
>> github.com/sudomesh/babeld
>
> Nice.
>
> My plan is a little different: I want a text interface over the existing
> TCP local interface, so that it's easily scriptable -- so that you can say
> e.g.
>
>   (echo 'add interface tun42'; echo 'quit') | nc ::1 33123

That sounds useful... I wrote something similar for olsrd2.

Making this interface easily scriptable will allow all kinds of nice
integrations into firmware.

Henning