Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred Open Beta

On 05/19/2013 07:50 AM, Simon Wunderlich wrote: >To those of you who actively follow the recent discussions it may come to no >big surprise that it was decided to remove the vis functionality from the >batman-adv kernel module in a not so distant future (with the next >compatibility bump). There always has been a debate whether or not such >functionality belongs into the kernel or not. The in-kernel solution bears the >disadvantage of being rather inflexible because every change has to go through >the official Linux channels. With the growing interest in flooding the network >with arbitrary data in addition to the visualization data realizing a solution >in user-space became the obvious choice. > >A new, more general user-space daemon which takes over the old vis >functionality and much more, called A.L.F.R.E.D. (Almighty Lightweight Fact >Remote Exchange Daemon) came to life. Alfred is capable of distributing >information over your mesh network in a decentralized fashion, for example >graph information for vis, but also any other data which appears to be useful >- like hostnames, phone books, administration information, DNS information, >the local weather forecast, etc while requiring (almost) zero configuration. > >As the development on the core functionality has been finished and alfred works >(at least on the developers boxes), we would like to call for an open beta! >There are bleeding edge downloads and an OpenWRT feed available [1]. Please >try alfred and report bugs, send patches and inform us about your experiences. Cheerful Simon, finally, i have just taken the time to test alfred, and it looks pretty good, binary cli is dead simple to use, thanks a lot!! http://chef.mesh.altermundi.net/downloads/r36139/ar71xx/packages/alfred_2...

i'll take a stab at making a bat-hosts generator (are there any published efforts along these lines already?), but first i gave a quick look into current vis generator, and i observed some glitches * where does this 00:00:00:00:00:00 mac come from? * double interfaces don't seem to be properly detected or something