[Commotion-dev] Adding a cmake option for Babel in Commotion 1.2?

[Dave Taht]

1) I am curious as to what extent ipv6 support is in commotion´s conciousness?

I look forward to seeing babel tried (source specific routing being
nifty). This is one of my source specific gateways,
which has a fallback route to elsewhere if both of the two cablemodem
uplinks fails...

default from 2601:6476:6400:2cb0::/60 via fe80::28c6:8eff:febb:9ff0
dev eth3  proto babel  metric 1024  pref medium
default from 2601:686:3201:c5f0::/60 via fe80::22e5:2aff:feb8:14f dev
eth2  proto 74  metric 512  pref medium
default from 2601:676:2101:c8f0::/60 via fe80::22e5:2aff:feb8:87 dev
eth0  proto 73  metric 512  pref medium

2) address distibution is a headache, see hnetd for one attempt

3) aside: I saw you had "tinc" in there, below.

I would like to see more uptake of tinc 1.1 as it looks to be a touch
more secure than 1.0 and to scale better... in particular using udp
far more effectively. And it is perpetually not quite finished enough
yet...

http://www.tinc-vpn.org/

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Josh King <jking at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:
> Hey Mathieu,
>
> That depends on what's being patched. In most cases, if it's a
> completely custom package or version of a package you need, it would
> make sense to add it to the commotion-feed repo or to a separate branch.
> However, it looks like you're just adding to the list of stock OpenWRT
> packages you're including. If that's the case, then good news! You don't
> need to patch anything :-)
>
> You can actually provide custom build configurations that include
> additional packages. For instructions, you can check out:
>
> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-router#create-your-own-build-configurations
>
> But the basic upshot is, you can add a directory to 'configs' that
> contains your custom build. For instance, if you want to build Babel
> images for Ubiquiti routers, you could copy the
> commotion-router/configs/ubnt directory to
> commotion-router/configs/ubnt-montreal (or whatever you want to call
> that configuration), and edit the
> commotion-router/configs/ubnt-montreal/CMakeLists.txt file to add the
> following line:
>
> SET(PACKAGES "babel;tinc" PARENT_SCOPE)
>
> So that it reads:
>
> SET(TARGET "ar71xx" PARENT_SCOPE)
> SET(SUBTARGET "generic" PARENT_SCOPE)
> SET(PROFILE "UBNT" PARENT_SCOPE)
> SET(PACKAGES "babel;tinc" PARENT_SCOPE)
>
> If you want to add custom files too, just add them to
> commotion-router/configs/ubnt-montreal/files/. Now when you run
> cmake-gui, ubnt-montreal will be one of the targets available in the
> dropdown, and you can just select that for your build.
>
> I'm also up for accepting pull requests to improve how the buildsystem
> works, and for adding new targets. This is just a first pass, and I know
> it doesn't cover all use cases (like pulling in additional
> configurations from an outside source). Some use cases probably
> introduce too much additional complexity, but there are still plenty of
> improvements that can be made. Let me know if you have any questions, or
> run into any bugs!
>
> On 06/23/2015 11:01 AM, Mathieu Lutfy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking at the cmake build options for Commotion 1.2rc (commotion-router git master branch), looking to port forward the patches from Réseau Libre (Montreal) for Babel support.
>>
>> What would be the best way to include packages in the CMakeList.txt for supporting Babel, not just for our own specific fork, but to eventually get Babel officially supported by Commotion?
>>
>> On IRC, Dan pointed me to this article on cmake: http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/82
>>
>> So ideally, we would have a cmake build option to enable babel?
>>
>> I'm not really familiar with cmake, so this is what I got so far:
>> https://gist.github.com/mlutfy/fde3dfbf3b6cb0d71912
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mathieu
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