On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:24:01PM -0800, George Sanders wrote:
This is not a BATMAN specific question, but I see very clueful chatter here and would appreciate any comments.
My question is:
Who provides IP addresses in a truly ad-hoc, truly "peer only" mesh network ?
One option is IPv6 and link local addresses. These are derived from the MAC address, plus duplicate address detection, to ensure the IP address is unique. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4862
Another option is zeroconf, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927.
Another option is statically configure all the boxes with a unique IP address from a well know subnet. It is often worth remembering that a truly ad-hoc, truly "peer only" mesh network is used within some sort of organization. The organization can impose management rules.
Andrew