[Commotion-dev] Commotion and other mesh protocols

[Josh King]

Hi Genevieve,

It would not be that difficult to add babel to CommotionWRT. The way
that OLSRd is currently configured on CommotionWRT is that a hotplug
script in /etc/hotplug.d/ configures and starts OLSRd when a Commotion
interface starts. Although it wouldn't include some of OLSRd's LuCI web
interface tools, you could get babel running by including a babel
hotplug script that checks for babel's presence and configures it
appropriately when an interface starts. If you want to work on such a
script, I would be happy to provide feedback and integrate it upstream
when it's done. We'd like to support babel and other protocols, and it's
just been a matter of time and resources for me and some of the other
developers.

On 04/25/2013 09:39 PM, Genevieve Bastien wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been playing around a little with the Commotion OpenWrt firmware. 
> Thank you for the work.  I really like what you did with it, the
> automatic configuration makes it very easy to have something working and
> it's certainly a great step to make mesh networking accessible to the
> general public.
> 
> I was wondering how easy it would be to make Commotion support other
> mesh protocols.  Here in Montreal, Reseau Libre runs on babel.  We are
> slowly building our own firmware but using Commotion would jump us many
> steps ahead :D  Would it just be a matter of removing olsr and
> installing the babeld package instead or are the new packages you
> developed dependent on olsr?
> 
> Thanks,
> Geneviève
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-- 
Josh King
Lead Technologist
The Open Technology Institute

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