[Commotion-dev] Commotion and other mesh protocols

[Geneviève Bastien]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the tip.  I'll start working on it and see what I can do.  
I'll let you know how it goes.

Geneviève


On 04/29/2013 10:08 AM, Josh King wrote:
> 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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