[Battlemesh] Proposal for battlemesh v10 "testbed"

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Gui Iribarren <gui at altermundi.net> wrote:
>> So not sure if for this Battlemesh, but maybe the one after that
>> Gluon might be able to provide a stable firmware, tested by
>> many, many nodes and communities. While still allowing to compare
>> different routing protocols running on it, with the same kernel,
>> queuing, rate control etc. for all of them.
>
> With LibreMesh we're already there :)
> (a stable firmware, tested by many nodes and communities, in different
> continents) that can autoconfigure a mesh on layer3 using OLSR, OLSR2,
> BABEL or BMX6 / BMX7 (chosen at binary preparation)
> as well as a layer2 BATMAN-Adv
>
> So, also in line with Juliusz and Henning, for this coming edition i'd
> then propose to simply use LibreMesh for every protocol, so it's always
> the same set of kernel, qc, bugs, etc :)
>
> (i'd still be interested in a "showcase" of firmwares at least as a
> side-activity, but we could discuss that in another thread.)

IF we could agree on a single firmware, this would not be a bad start...

it would allow us to focus work on configuration and management
issues... we learned a lot about "how to make things difficult to use"
and "how to shoot ourselves in the foot" in the last years.

Henning