[Battlemesh] DHCP and IP addresses

[Linus Lüssing]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:35:58AM -0400, Ryan Hughes wrote:
> Hey, here's a question I never managed to ask anybody at the conference:
> 
> How do you deal with handing out IP addresses and doing DHCP and so forth?
> 
> So, let's say you start with the whole 10.0.0.0/8 range.  You
> probably want the individual access points to do DHCP with the
> clients that connect to them.  But they have to decide what range of
> IPs to hand out.  How do they decide that?  Do you assign each
> router a range when it joins the network?  How do you decide on an
> IP address for a router?  Does that do DHCP with something else, or
> do you give them out by hand?

Depends on the routing protocol, which one are you asking for?
(e.g. with batman-adv on layer two you're usually doing it quite
different ;) ) And also depends on the network protocol of
course, IPv4 only or also IPv6?

Cheers, Linus
> 
> Thanks.
> --Ryan
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