[Mesh] My mesh project.

[mark burdett]

One of these days, hackers need to start boycotting proprietary broadcom
hardware - including raspberry pi!  otherwise we'll never arrive at the
open hardware future :)

--mark B.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Alcides Gutierrez <alcides888 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi. I bumped into the three protocols about the same time along my
> journey. Didnt really explore babel as much as the other two. Later noticed
> WDS and a roster of others, but like you implied, these three were most
> popular.
>
> I was trying to steer clear of DD-WRT for the reason you stated about open
> source. But OpenWrt seems to be at a standstill when it comes to Linksys
> e2000 because of Broadcom proprietary mumbo jumbo... ;)
>
> I thought about Tomatoes but that seems like a world of worlds... Im still
> trying to get adjusted to linux (debian flavors).
>
> Thanks for the link. I love links! :) I look forward to meeting folks.
>
> Alcides Gutierrez
> http://e64.us
> On Feb 6, 2013 5:02 PM, "Marc Juul" <marcjc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Alcides Gutierrez <alcides888 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Nice. I did find out that both olsr and batman-adv are ongoing efforts.
>> I
>> > dropped by #batman on freenode and feel like batman-adv is a good
>> option for
>> > me to start with. Good to see that NG also uses batman. I have been
>> reading
>> > as many docs on batman to get up to speed.
>>
>> There are several other protocols out there. The main one I'm seeing
>> in use other than OLSR and batman-adv is Babel. Babel is apparently
>> really easy to work with. I asked the Project Byzantium people why
>> they chose it, and they said there was only one reason: simplicity of
>> deployment.
>>
>> Jenny and I have gathered some relevant facts about meshing protocols
>> here: http://thepyre.org/wiki/Mesh#Meshing_protocols_and_algorithms
>>
>> > Hoping different firmwares wont be a major issue if batman is the common
>> > protocol. Im gonna test out DDwrt on my e2000 and OpenWrt on two
>> wndr3800's.
>> > See how traffic flows.
>>
>> Cool. Maybe you already know this, but DD-WRT is not really open
>> source / free software. There are add-in modules that they want you to
>> pay for, and it's apparently very difficult to compile from source. I
>> tried using it once, and ran into a showstopper when I realized
>> there's no way to disable console output on the primary serial port
>> (meaning you can't use it for anything else).
>>
>> > Im meeting with Jenny tomorrow at sudo aboit 530. I would enjoy making
>> it
>> > out every Thursday if there's a gathering. Basically, what I do everyday
>> > with my free time is explore what I can with mesh networking.
>> > We can meet up next week if you like. Or if people wanna meet tomorrow,
>> Im
>> > cool with that too!
>>
>> I'm also ok either way.
>>
>> --
>> Marc Juul
>>
>
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