[Babel-users] Question about Babel

[Outback Dingo]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Antonio Quartulli <ordex at autistici.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:08:56 -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
>> 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
>
> The problem is that Juliusz is stating that Babel doesn't know anything about
> "clients" and that this name doesn't exists in Babel's documentation (afaik) at
> all.
>
> By the way, clients are hosts connected to mesh nodes by means of some interface
> that are then announced over the network (the so called HNA in OLSR language).
>

Yupp im well aware of this, was just trying to clarify what the
original poster was referring to
its more of an AP / DHCP routing issue for mobile clients then
anything babel related

>
> Cheers,
>
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> Antonio Quartulli
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