[Babel-users] Restarting MeshPoint – seeking advice on routing for crisis/disaster scenarios

[Linus Lüssing]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 01:04:43AM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > - BATMAN-adv-style seamless mobility
> 
> I started working on sroamd[1], which implements seamless mobility at
> layer 3, but then Covid happened, and I got interested in
> videoconferencing.  I guess we could revive it if there's interest.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/jech/sroamd

There's also l3roamd, predating sroamd:

https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/l3roamd

But unfortunately, not really maintained anymore. Originally
developed by Nils Schneider in 2015. Then Christof extensively
worked on this between 2017 and 2019, with hundreds (409) of commits.
(Unfortunately, this is also on the verge of being removed in Gluon
again, due to the lack of users / test reports...)

Regards, Linus


PS: I would really, really love to keep a layer 3 option in Gluon
going. Also because I think it would be neat to compare the
different routing protocols in real world scenarios. With the
autoupdater and scheduled-domain-switcher it should be quite easy
to run a whole network on protocol a) for a month and protocol b)
on another. Without needing full central control, like SSH root
access (but it is an option; otherwise the autoupdater uses a
multi-party signature scheme, so you can say s.th. like 3 of these 10
people need to sign a new firmware). So, shameless promotion..., if
anyone here might be interested in maintaining a Babel or OLSR
implementation in Gluon, let us know :-).