Hello Kaushik
On 2016-10-03 19:44, Kaushik N P wrote:
Hello,
What I hope to find is:-
Another documentation maybe for setting up, or confirmation for setting up (because I can't tell sometimes if the instructions have been followed correctly).
I have no experience in simulating or emulating batman-adv, but I have experience in compiling openwrt from source along with batman-adv and batctl. I can help you with that. batman-adv is built as a kernel module and so it is included by default in Linux kernels >= 2.x. You have mentioned that you are using Linux based operating system, I hope by now, you should be running Linux kernel 4.x. If you want to play around with batman-adv for sometime before emulating, you can use two three Linux based laptops with WiFi interface cards that support IBSS (adhoc mode).
You can check that using
iw list | grep IBSS
if the command returned something like Device supports RSN-IBSS. * IBSS
then your Wireless NIC can be switched to ad-hoc mode. We have a bash shell script that does it automatically for you. You can find the script and terminal cast in the following links.
1. https://github.com/PYMeshnet/scripts 2. https://asciinema.org/a/38575
Clarification for my doubt regarding the different types of OpenWRT images (like Kamikaze, Chaos Calmer, Attitude Adjustment,etc), what do they do and which one I should use for working with standard Batman adv setup.
Chaos Calmer (15.x) is the recent stable release of OpenWRT firmware. 'Kamikaze, Altitude Adjustment, etc.,' are just different names given to different versions of OpenWRT releases. OpenWRT are meant to be the operating system for routers and modems. Depending on the configuration of devices, some versions may be supported and some may not be supported on certain routers and modems.
Since you are trying to create a virtual environment, I think should go with Chaos Calmer. (again I have no experience either with creating a virtual environment for OpenWRT nor for batman-adv).
Confirmation method to see if qemu having OpenWRT is setup in my system - as now I have a setup in terminal which says
BusyBox v1.24.2 () built-in shell (ash)
//Says OpenWrt below _______ ________ __ | | .-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - | | _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______| | __|____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
DESIGNATED DRIVER (Bleeding Edge, 49928)
- 2 oz. Orange Juice Combine all juices in a
- 2 oz. Pineapple Juice tall glass filled with
- 2 oz. Grapefruit Juice ice, stir well.
- 2 oz. Cranberry Juice
root@OpenWrt:/# [ 13.897119] smsc911x smsc911x.0 eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xf0b40000, IRQ: 60 [ 13.934741] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode [ 13.978166] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready [ 15.762764] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.764526] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.802643] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready [ 17.762480] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state root@OpenWrt:/#
I have more doubts, but hopefully, I will get some answers to them from the above questions itself. Hope to hear soon!!!
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushik NP LI | Tw | FB SAP Ambassador, General Secretary, Computer Society Team IEEE UVCE, 3rd Year Undergraduate Student, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, IN