* elektra onelektra@gmx.net [09.12.2009 21:40]:
Out of curiousity, what does the freifunk network use for assigning IPs ?
At Freifunk Berlin users register with a user name and a valid e-mail address. Then you can register IPs in the data base.
At Freifunk Weimar each new flashed router assigns a random IP-Adress out of a reserved IP-Range for 100 Nodes.
Each 15mins the node tries to register an offical IP with his SSH-PUBKEY on a central server and reassigns the new IP. (which includes IP's for WAN/LAN/WIFI/HNA4/lan+wifi-DHCP)
So we have a strict mapping SSHPUBKEY <--> IP. We need zero user-interaction for settings up a new node. The SSH-PUB-KEY normally never changes in the live of a node.
bye, Bastian
PS: we have about 600 registered routers/nodes (but not all are active)