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

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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I think it a better version of the Optimized Link State Routing
Protocol (OLSR) which is an IP routing algoritm, 802.11s is link level
routing, which needs a wifi driver that permits changing the mac
address.

But there is no standard for it I think.

> know far too little about all of them to have a preference.
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