[Commotion-discuss] Send mesh routes to upstream router

Christopher Munz-Michielin christopher at ve7alb.ca
Wed Jul 6 15:38:18 UTC 2016


Hi Josh,

Thanks for the reply.  I'd like to run BGP on the commotion router and 
have it communicate routing info back to the edge router, but am not 
sure how to get Quagga (or similar) up and running on the commotion 
firmware, any suggestions?

Cheers,
Chris


On 06/07/2016 08:23, Josh King wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> There are a few different ways you could approach this. I can think of
> three right off the bat, but there may be more. They all have their own
> advantages and disadvantages:
>
> * You could run BGP or similar on the nodes or on the edge router; they
> would share the kernel routing table with OLSR, but as long as it's set
> up in such a way that they don't clobber each others' routes it should
> be fine. I'm not familiar enough though with setting up BIRD,
> Zebra/Quagga, or similar to know exactly how to configure it to pass
> along all of the OLSR routes as well.
>
> * You could split it up by subnet and configure the routes statically.
> The problem here is that all Commotion nodes self-select their
> addresses out of the same private subnet, so you'd need to configure
> the nodes to select out of separate subnets manually.
>
> * Since the nodes already run a dynamic routing protocol (OLSR), you
> could create a VPN tunnel between the two networks. Then they can
> dynamically pass their routing traffic themselves between the two
> networks. This would require setting up a VPN tunnel, and could
> potentially experience performance issues as the network scales (OLSR
> is a chatty protocol to be sending over a narrow VPN pipe).
>
> Hopefully that helps. Let me know if you have any thoughts.
>
> On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:45 -0700, Christopher Munz-Michielin wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just starting to play around with the Commotion firmware as I'm part
>> of
>> a group of ham radio operators looking at starting a localized mesh
>> using ubiquiti M2's.  So far I'm impressed by the firmware but did
>> have
>> one question: Is it possible to run a dynamic routing protocol (such
>> as
>> OSPF, BGP or RIP) to send information about the connected mesh
>> devices
>> to an upstream router?  Our architecture would be something like
>> this:
>>
>> Internet------------Edge Router---------------Mesh
>> node-------------------Additional mesh nodes-----------local subnet
>>                                       |
>>                                       |
>>                           Non mesh network
>>
>> I can add static routes to the edge router, but doing so would be
>> cumbersome and potentially time consuming, especially if we are
>> adding
>> new nodes frequently so a dynamic protocol would be preferred.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>>
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