[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

[Dave Taht]

There are plenty of mesh protocols available - 802.11s, batman, olsr,
and my own fav babel. 802.11s operates at layer 2, is limited to 32
nodes, and has other issues, so I tend to ignore it. batman-adv is
also layer too but much more flexible and interesting.

But as for babel, I like it because it is a pure layer 3 protocol, it
handles ipv6 and ipv4, and has a pluggable metric.

http://babelweb.kerneis.info:8080/ shows a live babel based mesh network.
as is http://carme.lab.bufferbloat.net:8080/

(via this software.
 http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~kerneis/software/babelweb/

setting up a babel mesh on ad-hoc is simple, this is the simplest
possible demo... build and install babeld and ahcp on all nodes

All connected nodes share the same ssid and channel. (for diversity
routing just change the channel)

On all nodes, disable Network manager and anything else that automates
ip getting

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc channel 1 essid babel # channel and essid
are arbitrary. Some devices won't let you do that in one pass
ifconfig wlan0 up

babeld -D -z3 eth0 wlan0

ifconfig wlan0 172.20.0.1/32 # for the first node
ifconfig wlan0 172.20.0.2/32 # for the second node
ifconfig wlan0 172.20.0.3/32 # etc

You can use the same ip addresses for your ethernet addresses
as life is figured out via the address/interface tuple. If you do
that, you can do transparent failover from ethernet to wireless. If
you don't, like on any routed network, you need to make sure your
address ranges/netmask are disjoint

ifconfig eth0 172.20.0.1/32 # for the first node
ifconfig eth0 172.20.0.2/32 # for the second node
ifconfig eth0 172.20.0.3/32 # etc

Now, it's easier to just setup an ahcp server to hand out addresses,
and use ahcp for setup, but that's too long to go into the margins
here.







On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Rick C. Hodgin <foxmuldrster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Matthias-Christian,
>
> I appreciate your response.  If the research is available let's get it out
> there and find the software and steps to setup mesh networks on FBX.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Rick C. Hodgin
>
> On 06/20/2012 08:50 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-06-20 14:23, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>>
>>> The protocol will establish what information is necessary to maintain a
>>> living, dynamic mesh, how to route packets, etc.  I will also work on
>>> protocols for fixed placement FBXs (in a home, street lamp), as well as
>>> roaming FBXs (carrying one on a backpack, bicycle, car).
>>
>> I don't fully understand what you are trying to do here and haven't
>> looked at the software you created, but if you want to simulate wireless
>> mesh networks, I found that ns-3 [1] works (I had to use it during a
>> course on networks which included simulation wireless mesh networks and
>> simple evaluations of routing algorithms), so I guess you don't have to
>> write your own software.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matthias-Christian
>>
>> [1] http://www.nsnam.org/
>>
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