And here is the Batman
Let’s go higher to a next level of mesh firmware. What Meraki is already doing thanks to roofnet daemon in his openwrt firmware is almost here also for FON.
Once again behind this there’s Antonio Anselmi , with his latest release of ponte2 script which includes the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing daemon.
B.A.T.M.A.N. is a project of open-mesh.net for dynamic routing in adhoc mesh networking . A short description from Open-mesh website:
B.A.T.M.A.N (Better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a new approach to Ad-Hoc-Routing unlike other algorithms that we are aware of. Reactive protocols search for routes when a node initiates communication to a remote node. Proactive protocols (e.g. link-state algorithms) calculate routes proactively from all nodes to all other nodes in the mesh-cloud, whether they are necessary or not.
I think that we have to test this new release of ponte2 script as soon as possible and to recreate a working testbed , I thought at the fourth-coming Italia Wave Festival. In the area of this music event is expected a huge attendance of people and to cover the whole area of the park , I think that 15-20 foneras in a batman mesh cloud should be enough.
I will try to arrange this , struggling with my primary occupation. My time is getting short and also I will have to leave on July 4th to China for ten days to arrange next summer 2008 Dema shoe collection.
So if you are a brave wifi enthusiast and technician please join and give an help.
Antonio, 
Dema FON Blog 
Skynetbbs 9:25 pm on June 12, 2007 Permalink |
Nice!
can the fonera hotspot owner decide to bridge their local lan on this batman or not? or forward/firewall certain stuff?
Can the 2nd antenna be activated? so we can use a fontenna to find other meshed fonera’s in the street… and the existing 2db to have still signal inside the house?
or do we need to use 2 foneras… using a ponte in repeater mode
and one in meshing mode?
Skynetbbs 9:25 pm on June 12, 2007 Permalink |
if every router is going to use it’s own iprange… won’t we be need ipv6 soon?
no natting? 🙂
antonde 7:15 am on June 13, 2007 Permalink |
@skynetbbs
1) I think is netfilter stuff so I see no troubles need to be tested anyway
2) I think better not to mess around with actual fonera and wait for 1.5 which has dual antenna built in
3) I think that a cloud with 256 nodes can be enough for a small village mesh network. Wider coverage I think is a task bigger than us 🙂
Antonio 7:22 am on June 13, 2007 Permalink |
Today (13th) I have a “hard day work” and just a little bit of time to spend for ponte2 😦
Sure tomorrow I’ll be more present and clear for comments!
thanks