[Babel-users] Ahcpd update in OpenWrt (quick HOWTO)

2010-05-31 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
To every Ahcpd/OpenWrt user, I just realised that the init script was totally broken in server mode. This is now fixed in r21644. Since nobody reported it, I guess nobody was using it, for whatever reason. Anyway, here is a quick how-to. I hope it might help some of you to setup their own ahcp

Re: [Babel-users] Ahcpd update in OpenWrt (quick HOWTO)

2010-05-31 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Gabriel Kerneis kern...@pps.jussieu.fr wrote: Choose one of your stations to act as an ahcpd server. What happens if there is a network split? Mitar ___ Babel-users mailing list

Re: [Babel-users] Ahcpd update in OpenWrt (quick HOWTO)

2010-05-31 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:55:27PM +0200, Mitar wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Gabriel Kerneis kern...@pps.jussieu.fr wrote: Choose one of your stations to act as an ahcpd server. What happens if there is a network split? You ought to be on the good half of the split ;-) More

Re: [Babel-users] Ahcpd update in OpenWrt (quick HOWTO)

2010-05-31 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Gabriel Kerneis kern...@pps.jussieu.fr wrote: More seriously, you can have as many servers as you like, but be aware that: 1° the client will pick ONE server (the closest) and get every   information from it. Consequence: you cannot use one server to  

Re: [Babel-users] Ahcpd update in OpenWrt (quick HOWTO)

2010-05-31 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:41:43PM +0200, Mitar wrote: OK. But what is then difference with running a dnsmasq on every node with DHCP where every node has its own IPv4 pool for clients? dnsmasq does not yet support IPv6 but is this then the only difference? Off the the top of my head: - IPv6