On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:37:17PM -0800, Randy Graham wrote:
Thanks for all of your replies, you have answered my questions !
It seems that batman-adv is not suitable for a 802.15.4 mesh network, so I guess I'll need to look elsewhere.
Does anyone know of a non-proprietary mesh network stack for 802.15.4 on linux ? I know that zigbee has not made into the kernel due to GPL issues.
We are going OT, but it is worth an answer. :) As far as I know there is nothing for multi-hop routing on 802.15.4 in the linux kernel. So I think you need to implement something yourself. You can either start a port of RPL (e.g. from Contiki) or you can start an experiment and try to adapt batman-adv to run on top of those interfaces. I would say that the second is a really juicy topic. If you do so, we could also think about having a mixed mesh network, part which runs low power and part which runs common 802.11.
Cheers,