[Mesh] From libre-mesh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. My name is Pau from Barcelona. I have heard about your project in the battlemesh mailing list. First of all, congratulations for starting such kind of initiative, I hope you succeed. In my place I'm working in the development of a Mesh firmware named qMp [2] which is being used mainly in our community network Guifi.net [3]. The purpose of sending this mail comes from what I read in your Wiki [4] about create a new firmware. IMHO it is a mistake since there are several projects already created, probably too much because we are dividing our strength. Recently (thanks to the battlemesh and other events like that) we have started a new project to put all the development efforts together and make a firmware generic and useful for everybody. The idea is to make a meta-firmware which can be used as basis to create specific community firmwares. The project is named libre-mesh [5]. Until now three existing mesh communities have joined: Guifi.net (Catalonia), AlterMesh (Argentina), Eigennet (Italy). I would like to invite you to participate. We have a huge experience in the OpenWRT-based distributions for mesh networking, I hope you are able to take advantage of it. I don't pretend to start a large discussion about routing protocols, but I would like to summary our conclusions because they can be useful for us. Batman-adv is very nice, but you cannot have a single collision domain cloud for all the nodes because it does not scale. So, the network have to be splitted in several clouds. To federate them a layer3 routing protocol is needed, so here is where we use BMX6 [7]. Why? because BMX6 (100% rewritten fork of Batmand with native IPv6 support) is very powerful and produces a very low overhead (see [6]). Here [8][9] find a couple of small diagrams to understand a little better this model. Cheers. PS: do not use ARC Freestations, they use Ralink USB chips and driver is bullshit in ad-hoc mode. PS2: CCed Libre-Mesh mailing list [1] mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org [2] http://qmp.cat [3] http://guifi.net [4] https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware [5] http://libre-mesh.org [6] https://libre-mesh.org/attachments/download/12/overhead_mobile.png [7] http://bmx6.net [8] https://libre-mesh.org/attachments/download/4/smartmesh2.png [9] https://libre-mesh.org/attachments/download/17/lime-modes1.jpg - -- ./p4u