Hi All,

I want to ask for your advice about a batman problem I am facing. I have a mesh network of custom build embedded Linux devices. The devices have only network one interface and this is the Wi-Fi that is used by batman. So far the mesh is running OK, but at some point I need to be able to connect with a laptop (non-Linux) to the network and access some of the devices via its IP address. I tried simply connecting to the adhoc network and setting a static IP to my laptop. I have managed to do that, but I can't access the nodes from the mesh.

I read the instruction for mixing with non-batman devices by bridging the bat0 interface with the "non-batman" interface, but as far as I understand that applies to systems with at least 2 network interfaces e.g one for batman nodes and one for the non-batman. So my question is - can I mix non-batman and batman nodes when I have only one network interface on the batman nodes? If yes, then how?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards, Panayot

P.S I am using batman-adv 2011.2.0, because I can't cross compile the latest version against the kernel I use on the devices - 2.6.28. Also I don't use batctl.