[Battlemesh] Call for .. organiza.. testbed firmware

[Ufo]

Am 13.01.14 07:53, schrieb Gui Iribarren:
> On 01/08/2014 06:50 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
>>   * Firmware preparation - We can probably use the WBMv6 firmware
> I'm in for the firmware
>
> i know ufo has been playing with the wbmv6-firm and reporting bugs, etc

yes, these are github https://github.com/battlemesh/battlemesh-packages
i was doing some layer8 experiences with real, smart(phone) peoples and 
than f.i. throwing away these usb-wifi-sticks.
We also were including bufferbloat into firmware, Dave did some Tests 
and was crying..

But, finally we can pronounce that we now in Leipzig have a 
Freifunk-Firmware which is Battlemesh-v6-compatible! And its still 
downwards-compatible to even our oldest linksys Nodes!
Its made via stable freifunk meshkit imagebuilder (but with manually 
IPv4 settings within that) then with some uci-commands to configure 
vlans, batman-adv and fastd.
(Battlemesh) VLAN12 and 14 are now used for clients (with VAP roaming 
effect), atm with centralized dhcp-server..
in the next weeks i will update all new nodes to batman-adv-2014 and 
fastd-v11.
vlan12 batman-adv liveview http://ffmap.leipzig.freifunk.net/

> there are as well some spinoffs/forks of the original code, such as
> catalunyan wibed, which introduces a controller webgui for test deployment

so lets take some best parts of all these projects! are there some 
screenshots? one of our nodes in sublab looks like this: 
https://twitter.com/rundfreifunk/status/407920648724709376/photo/1

> so, count me in to get the wbmv6 code rebased on top of current trunk,
> (maybe merge interesting things from wibed?), test stuff and get
> everything up to speed before the event

yes please. updating that in the next weeks and we could do some tests.
some problems with the outdated firmware are written down at github 
issue tracking system.
everybody is invited to couple local wifi-testnodes to a battlemesh vpn 
cloud.

greetings, ufo

p.s. what about a testbed. where to get some wifi-routers? the tplink 
devices we used at battlemesh V6 are still very nice. So we should need 
these again, or is there more interesting hardware available?


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