[Freedombox-discuss] Missing tech

[Yannick]

Le lundi 07 mars 2011 à 09:30 +1030, Paul Gardner-Stephen a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Luka Marčetić <paxcoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 03/06/2011 07:33 PM, Michael Blizek wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> >> On 18:22 Sun 06 Mar     , Luka Mar??eti?? wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>  * Mesh networking - I've suggested packaging netsukuku, but as
> >>> pro-embedding crew pointed out, a much more lightweight equivalent
> >>> is desirable, if indeed such an alternative exists.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Do we sack this? There is some IP based stuff available and I am
> >> programming
> >> a prococol on layer 3+4 with qos/credits, onion routing and some other
> >> things.
> >>
> >
> > Probably, I just remembered that we have at least one viable alternative:
> > the B.A.T.M.A.N. project (http://www.open-mesh.org/) suggested by James
> > Valleroy some half a year ago. It's written in C and packaged for Debian(!).
> > It doesn't address the question of onion routing tho.
> 
> This is also what VillageTelco.org & ServalProject.org use for their
> mesh networks.
> So +1 from me for supporting it.
> 
> Paul.

Babel offer similar feature and *seems* a bit better (I've not enough
skills to judge this myself...):
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/

reviews of BATMAN Versus Babel:
http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1747&context=infopapers
http://bridgingthelayers.org/docs/murray_routing.pdf