B.a.t.m.a.n.

[Ivan Voras]

On 13 May 2012 06:46, Ivo Vachkov <ivo.vachkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please define "working"? Porting? Kernel-level implementation? BSD-licensed
> one?

I'm just throwing the idea out, in case it catches the eye of someone
who's looking for an interesting project. In the ideal world, I'd say
BSD-licensed reimplementation, but I certainly won't get picky.

It does have some documentation (e.g.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wunderlich-openmesh-manet-routing-00
, http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/Doc-overview).

> Are there any reasons to choose B.A.T.M.A.N. instead of bmx or babel? ... or
> OLSR? ... or HSLS?

I've seen BATMAN work at a local Linux club meeting, and I was pretty
much impressed by how easy it is to setup. I don't know about the
other protocols you listed, but BATMAN is in the stock Linux kernel,
making it a practical choice. I might be wrong but it seems to me that
it, contrasted to 802.11s, requires no special support from the wifi
driver side, making it easier to implement. Other than that, no, I
know far too little about all of them to have a preference.