[Babel-users] Mapping the global status?

yanosz freifunk at yanosz.net
Fri Jun 3 18:19:16 UTC 2016


Hello,

thanks! I'll have a look at babelweb.

Greetz, yanosz

Am 06/03/2016 um 07:32 PM schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
>> As far as I know, babel offers all events through its local port, while
>> kill -USR1 $PID outputs babeld's current tables (btw. does it print all
>> routes received or just the chosen ones?).
> 
> All of them.  The chosen ones are marked "installed".
> 
> (Babeld will actually discard some routes, you can disable this
> optimisation by setting the "keep-unfeasible" option.  It's a good idea to
> set this option on nodes you use for monitoring.)
> 
>> However, this is just local information not providing a view on the
>> global network.
> 
> No single node has global information in a Babel network -- nodes only
> know in which direction to push packets, that's all they need.
> 
>> Are you aware of any tools for displaying or mapping the global status?
> 
> There's babelweb, that displays the two-hop topology and can monitor
> multiple nodes simultaneously:
> 
>   https://github.com/kerneis/babelweb
> 
> There's a live demo online, but it's broken right now:
> 
>   http://babelweb.wifi.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr:8080/
> 
> -- Juliusz
> 

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