Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Dual radio BATMAN Advanced implementation

On Thursday 01 July 2010 05:22:11 Matthew Anderson wrote:

I'm using OpenWRT with a 5.8GHz 802.11n radio for backhaul and 2.4GHz 802.11b/g for serving non BATMAN clients. I'm going to run BATMAN Adv on the backhaul network and bridge it to the client radio which would effectively make it one giant layer 2 mesh. In this situation, would users on the b/g radio's be able to roam between nodes? Am I better off removing the bridge between the mesh and the client radio and use layer 3 routing or NAT instead?

You got it right - bridge the 2.4GHz network with batman's interface (bat0) while batman itself runs on 5.8Ghz and your clients can happily roam around. Layer 3 routing or NAT is not the way to go if you want roaming.

Cheers, Marek