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

2010-06-01 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Mitar, On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:02:56PM +0200, Mitar wrote: you discover that some part of your lab is not covered by your mesh network, just take another Fonera, flash it with a customized image (featuring babel and ahcpd in client mode), plug it near the dead zone, and it works!

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

2010-06-01 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Gabriel Kerneis kern...@pps.jussieu.fr wrote: So that it can get an IP and be reachable via ssh for administration purposes Then all your nodes have the same SSH password/key? Or how do you know which one is on which IP? And how do you know when first

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

2010-06-01 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:44:35AM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote: well my netbook runs openwrt :) has babel on it, so ur saying i can install ahcpd in client mode there also ? Yes indeed, follow the how-to, it should be straightforward. and does ahcpd support multiple network configurations? It

[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