[Babel-users] babel and zeroconf

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> delighted to have accidentally encountered babel.

Welcome on board.

> i was wondering if anyone has had any experience deploying babel
> simultaneously with zeroconf (!) on e.g. a truly wireless adhoc
> network.

Zeroconf is a purely link-local protocol -- it doesn't reach beyond
the local link.  In a mesh network, the notion of link doesn't really
exist, so zeroconf will give mixed results.

(The same is true of DHCP, by the way, which is why we have developed
our own configuration protocol (AHCP).)

More precisely, zeroconf in a mesh network will only allow you to
speak to your neighbours.

IMHO, the righ solution would be to extend zeroconf to work over
a site-local IPv6 prefix, and to extend Babel to route multicast.  Let
me know if you want to work on the former, and I'll think about the
latter.

> i always always always immediately switch off delivery of messages
> whenever there is no forum gateway to a mailing list.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/babel-users/
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                                        Juliusz