Re: hacknight - roofnet

Well, we tested it out with 3 stylistics and a couple of soekris boxes. 

We were able to ping all the members of the network, and route traffic 
out of the gateway node.   We did not try multiple gateways as we ran 
out of time.   There have been some major changes in roofnet since then, 
and we should probably revisit the software.

One thing I did notice was that each node's clients were behind a NAT.  
Although this is great for the goals of RoofNet (providing internet 
access over a mesh),  it would require some changes to create a fully 
routed net.

Another problem we found was in the startup scripts.  If you had more 
than one radio attached to your box, it would crash on startup.  This is 
likely due to the method they are using to load the modules, and should 
be an easy fix.

As I stated though, there has been a lot of work done since we poked at 
it, and it is likely more stable.  One change that I noticed that seems 
particularly interesting is the ability to act as a mesh node (in adhoc) 
while also acting as an Infrastructure master.   Another is that click 
no longer requires patching your kernel to run.

It's definitely worth taking a look at if you are interested in mesh 
networking.

-matt


Ryan Hodges wrote:

>Hello,
>
>A little while back I saw a hacknight agenda to test out roofnet.  I
>went searching the archives but I haven't found much of a response of
>how things went with this.  I would love to get some input on roofnet
>as I would like to try it out on some hardware I have but it would be
>nice to know if I'm wasting my time or not.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ryan
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