[Freedombox-discuss] Missing tech

[James Valleroy]

> On 03/06/2011 07:33 PM, Michael Blizek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >    
> 
> Hello.
> 
> > On 18:22 Sun 06 Mar     , Luka Mar??eti?? wrote:
> >    
> >>   * Mesh networking - I've suggested packaging netsukuku, but as
> >> pro-embedding crew pointed out, a much more lightweight equivalent
> >> is desirable, if indeed such an alternative exists.
> >>      
> > Do we sack this? There is some IP based stuff available and I am
> programming
> > a prococol on layer 3+4 with qos/credits, onion routing and some
> other things.
> >    
> 
> Probably, I just remembered that we have at least one viable 
> alternative: the B.A.T.M.A.N. project (http://www.open-mesh.org/) 
> suggested by James Valleroy some half a year ago. It's written in C
> and 
> packaged for Debian(!). It doesn't address the question of onion
> routing 
> tho.
> 
> Anyway, good luck with cor, but I'm afraid we can't make a definite 
> decision before your thing is stable.
> --Luka Mar?eti?
> 

There is another user-space mesh routing program called babeld which is
also in Debian: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/

It supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and they mention it should work well on
embedded systems.

James Valleroy