Hi folks,
I really need a bit of your help! I've already spent a week on this and I can't succeed! :(
I'm going to install a small mesh (12 nodes, initially) covering my city and linking some friends of mine. At the moment the equipment (Ubiquiti) is already installed, structured as AP-STA (PSK2) in one large LAN (all connections bridged L2) with one central dhcp/firewall serving the 192.168.9.0/24 subnet (now that's all inside this net only).
I would like to migrate the topology to a routed network, where the wireless mesh nodes have IPs allocated inside 10.9.0.0/16, and below each one of these nodes there will be a local LAN with reserved subnet (IP offered by OpenWRT through dnsmasq). I've done some experiment with OLSRd and I got a working system that way, but I'd REALLY LOVE to use batman-adv instead. Some of the networks already have internet connectivity, that will be shared through the mesh to whom needs it.
10.9.11.1 <----> 192.168.11.0/24 --> 192.168.11.1 (internet gateway) || || 10.9.12.1 <----> 192.168.12.0/24 || || 10.9.13.1 <----> 192.168.13.0/24 --> 192.168.13.1 (internet gateway) || || 10.9.14.1 <----> 192.168.14.0/24 || || 10.9.xx.1 <----> 192.168.xx.0/24
Batman-adv will take care of the routing inside the wireless mesh (links " || " in the diagram). Anyway, I need that any host on the 192.168.xx.0/24 subnets will be able to talk to each other.
How can this be done with batman-adv?
And then, in your opinion, would be better to stay on BackFire ath9k Open IBSS or is the Attitude Adjustment ath9k RSN IBSS (PtMP) stable enough?
Many many thanks in advance for your time.
Sincerely, Luca