[Battlemesh] Open Tasks - once again / And some questions

[Bernd Naumann]

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Hi Simon,
Hi at all,

On 04/01/2015 07:06 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> * Test preparation/management - create test scenarios or adopt from
> last year, prepare and discuss them with teams, organize
> evaluation. As you may know, this is a challenging, but very
> interesting task :)

are there any written notes or code examples on configuration,
measuring and plotting results?

* http://battlemesh.org/NetworkConfiguration ?


# Deploying nodes in the area

I have an other question in more general: if I remember correctly,
last year many tests happened with nodes really close to each other
(all on one table).
  Is there any reason in this, besides - it was more difficult to
scatter the nodes over the area like in copenhagen it was (I saw the
walkaround video clip, which was quiet cool to show around, to
illustrate the battlemesh-sphere ;-)?
  How will be the situation at the spot this year? I saw that it might
be possible to do long-shots, too. Do we have access to the area? Do
we can build a real world scenario?


# Simulate disruption

An other thing: What could I do if I do not have access to a large
area and want to simulate disruption in a mesh network virtually? Like
changing legacy or available bandwith with linux kernel features, or
is there even a way to simulate bad ETX-values on the mesh layer via
the kernel?


# Testbeds at the battlemesh

And as I am writing right now, a third and hopefully last thing:
Last year I didn't understood the topology of the network, so is there
a separated /stable/ network for accessing the internet (?), but how
are test-networks organised? Are there several networks from different
groups, and when and how someone can participate, learn and maybe help
with something while building and testing?


# Bonus: `owrtconfig`-fork

As someone might have seen at the freifunk-list, I found an old
battlemesh-script and edited it: `owrtconfig` .
  I added the feature to flash many devices for the first time
(`owrtflash.sh`) with help from `curl` and the arp-foo already in
`owrtconfig.sh`. Someone will may find it useful or give feedback/add
some stuff.
You can find my modification at
https://github.com/ptrhere/owrtconfig/compare/master...L337hium:master

Pull-requests with curl-scripts to support more devices are very
appreciated because I only have limited access to different devices.
But you can also test the tp-link scripts on other firmware versions
and/or similar models, maybe the scripts could be executed with minor
modifications. (hint/srly: firefox developer tools ftw!)

Thank you and many greetings from Weimar,
Bernd

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Bernd Naumann <bernd at kr217.de>

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