On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:32 PM, George Sanders wrote:
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It is my understanding that BATMAN has come out of the freifunk community, and
wikipedia seems to confirm this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.
And further, it appears that there is some amount of criticism of OLSR from
the BATMAN camp:
No, not every one in the Freifunk communities believes these claims.
It is probably better not to go back to these senseless "protocol wars" .
No - you misunderstand - I was just mentioning that as _the basis of_ my current understanding.
I have no interest in the previous politics, I was just making some assumptions, and these are the background for my assumptions.
This all makes sense to me, but what I don't understand is, why do all (or
nearly all ?) of the freifunk
networks use OLSR, and continue to use OLSR on the freifunk firmware ?
Are any of the freifunk networks using BATMAN ? If so, what routing metric
are they using with it ?
This is the meat of what I am asking - I am wondering what context is it proper to use BATMAN, and the reason I am confused about it is that I see most (all ?) of the freifunk networks using OLSR.
And as an aside, I am curious, if any freifunk networks are using BATMAN, what routing metric do they use ?
Again, no interest in past politics, just trying to answer the "where did you get that idea" question in advance :)