Hello, Steffen. It's a very cool and interesting project. Being a network admin, I would be very interested in such a use-case, when it will be at least beta-status ready. So, I will be able to assist with some testing of routing. (Playing with some overlay things too, multihop and RTT based.) But unfortunately I am useless as a programmer.
Andrei. On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:58 AM Steffen Vogel <p...@steffenvogel.de> wrote: > > Hi babel-users, > > This is my first post to this list and as such also my first contact with the > Babel community. > > A couple of days ago, I started to work on implementation of the Babel > protocol in Go driven by the following objectives: > > - Embeddable Go-package / library > - Possibly also a babeld-compatible daemon later-on > - Alternatively, integration into bio routing daemon > - Unicast & RTT support > - Clean and concise code > - Portable to Linux, BSDs, Windows & macOS > > My motivation to start a new Babel implementation is driven by the need for > routing daemon for my WireGuard overlay network. > There exist a couple of projects which establish and manage a mesh-network > based on WireGuard point-to-point links [3]. > I recently also started to work on my own mesh network daemon named "cunicu" > which is inspired by excellent Tinc-VPN [4]. > > Tinc-VPN had the ability to route traffic over intermediate hops when direct > point-to-point connectivity cannot be established. > This is a very useful feature to me when reaching into corporate or mobile > networks. And to my knowledge, this basic routing > functionality of Tinc-VPN is still a unique feature which more moderns > mesh-VPN solutions like Tailscale, NetBird, netmaker, ... do not support. > Hence, my requirements for unicast and the RTT-extensions are driven by my > use-case in WAN point-to-point links. > > You can find its current state in my GitHub repo [1]. Most of the low-level > packet de/encoding as well as transmission/reception is implemented. > Basic data structures also exist and first multicast neighbour discovery also > succeeded. > > I am now starting to implement the basic protocol logic like updates, > requests and route selection. > But as newcomer to the Babel protocol, that will take me some more time to > fully grasp the details of the protocol. > > My hope is to find a few collaborators for my endeavor who can support me > with the tricky parts of the protocol. > Maybe you just started your holiday looking for a small weekend project to > hack on? Or you are looking into learning a new programming language? > Let me know! Hacking together on such a project is always more fun. > > (I am working on this purely on my spare time. This is a hobby project for me > without any job/commercial background.) > > Best regards, > > Steffen (stv0g) > > [1] https://github.com/stv0g/go-babel > [2] https://github.com/stv0g/cunicu/ > [3] https://github.com/HarvsG/WireGuardMeshes > [4] https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Babel-users mailing list > Babel-users@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users -- Regards, Andrei Safonov. +381 62 810 4112 (WhatsApp) Srdačan pozdrav, Andrei Safonov. +381 62 810 4112 (WhatsApp) _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users