[Babel-users] Question about Babel

[Outback Dingo]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>> Does Babel support client roaming?
>
> Client-roaming is a BATMAN-specific concept, that doesn't make sense in
> Babel.  There's no such thing as "client roaming" in Babel, since Babel
> doesn't have the notion of "client" -- it's a pure peer-to-peer protocol.
>
> So rather than using non-standard terms that mean nothing in this
> context, why don't you tell us what you're trying to do, and we'll tell
> you how it can be done with Babel.

Sounds like hes basically trying to maintain client connections as
they move around the mesh from AP to AP
for the likes of video / voip / downloads without tcpip resets

>
>> Or do you see this as something some other part of the stack should
>> take care?
>
> Probably.  Babel is designed to be more modular than BATMAN, many things
> that BATMAN implements in the kernel module are done by separate daemons
> with Babel.
>
>> Does Babel support dynamic (run-time) configuration of interfaces it
>> operates on, without the need of restarting the daemon?
>
> Yes.
>
> -- Juliusz
>
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