[Battlemesh] LibreMesh

Gio gio at diveni.re
Sat Dec 17 18:35:21 UTC 2016


On Saturday 17 December 2016 16:23:42 Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, willi uebelherr
> 
> <willi.uebelherr at riseup.net> wrote:
> > Dear Henning,
> > 
> > what i know now, the 802.11s definitions act on the MAC identifiers. The
> > algorithms are part of the Short Path First algorithm from Dijkstra.
> > 
> > Now, they use the Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) definitions. But
> > the
> > strategy and the existed information pool?
> 
> The point is you can switch of HWMP completely in 802.11s and just use
> it similar to adhoc-mode. Run any kind of layer-3 routing protocol on
> top and you are fine.
> 
> so even if adhoc mode is not working with a driver, using 802.11s
> (with deactivated HWMP) might be a second option to run a mesh.

LibreMesh support the usage of 802.11s in this way since time, thought is not 
the default configuration because adhoc has received far more testing in real 
environments.

Cheers!


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