[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over wireless bridges

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over wireless bridges

[Tom Sparks]

I am wondering how well batman works over wireless bridges
like this:

batR <--> wifiB <--> wifiB <--> batR


meanings:
BatR: openwrt router with batman installed
wifiB: wifi bridge



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tom_a_sparks "It's a nerdy thing I like to do"

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over wireless bridges

[Antonio Quartulli]

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Hi Tom,

On 11/03/14 13:20, Tom Sparks wrote:
> 
> 
> I am wondering how well batman works over wireless bridges
> like this:
> 
> batR <--> wifiB <--> wifiB <--> batR
> 
> 
> meanings:
> BatR: openwrt router with batman installed
> wifiB: wifi bridge


What is a wifi bridge? How is it configured?

batman-adv uses the MAC addresses in the 802.11 header to understand
which node is a direct neighbour, therefore the bridge in the middle may
screw up this mechanism. It really depends on how the bridge is
implemented (it is not a standard component).


Cheers,

-- 
Antonio Quartulli


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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over wireless bridges

[Antonio Quartulli]

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(Forwarding to the ml. please keep it in the CC)

On 11/03/14 22:57, Tom Sparks wrote:
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> 
> 
> 
>> On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 7:29 AM, Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Hi Tom,
>>
>>
>> On 11/03/14 13:20, Tom Sparks wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>   I am wondering how well batman works over wireless bridges
>>>   like this:
>>>
>>>   batR <--> wifiB <--> wifiB <--> batR
>>>
>>>
>>>   meanings:
>>>   BatR: openwrt router with batman installed
>>>   wifiB: wifi bridge
>>
>>
>> What is a wifi bridge?
> 
> Basically they are two wireless AP that communicate with each only
>> How is it configured?
> I don't have them yet, I am looking at the bulletM from www.ubnt.com
> 
>>
>> batman-adv uses the MAC addresses in the 802.11 header to understand
>> which node is a direct neighbour, therefore the bridge in the middle may
>> screw up this mechanism. It really depends on how the bridge is
>> implemented (it is not a standard component).
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- 
>> Antonio Quartulli
>>
> 

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Antonio Quartulli


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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over wireless bridges

[Linus Lüssing]

Hi Tom,

We are currently using batman-adv over Ubiquiti Nanobridges M5 for
Freifunk. That works just fine, these devices are able to
transparently forward the batman-adv ethernet frames.

Cheers, Linus


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 05:20:04AM -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
> 
> 
> I am wondering how well batman works over wireless bridges
> like this:
> 
> batR <--> wifiB <--> wifiB <--> batR
> 
> 
> meanings:
> BatR: openwrt router with batman installed
> wifiB: wifi bridge
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> tom_a_sparks "It's a nerdy thing I like to do"
> 

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over wireless bridges

[Tom Sparks]

> On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 10:15 AM, Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> wrote:

> > Hi Tom,
> 
> We are currently using batman-adv over Ubiquiti Nanobridges M5 for
> Freifunk. That works just fine, these devices are able to
> transparently forward the batman-adv ethernet frames.
> 
> Cheers, Linus
> 
p2p link distance is going to be my main issue, but that for another thread

tom 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 05:20:04AM -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  I am wondering how well batman works over wireless bridges
>>  like this:
>> 
>>  batR <--> wifiB <--> wifiB <--> batR
>> 
>> 
>>  meanings:
>>  BatR: openwrt router with batman installed
>>  wifiB: wifi bridge
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ---
>>  tom_a_sparks "It's a nerdy thing I like to do"
>> 
>