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
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Alcides Gutierrez
<alcides888(a)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