Thank you very much. Now I have an ad-hoc network if not a batman adhoc network. They all report no nodes in range. In x-wrt I changed all the channels to 10, mode ad-hoc, essid project. I set the lan i.p. to 103.0.0.* (the number of the router).

I also added a startup script but it doesn't seem to be run. I have to login via ssh and basically copy it:

iwconfig wl0 channel 10 essid project mode Ad-Hoc ifconfig eth0.0 103.0.0.6 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 103.255.255.255 ifconfig eth0.1 103.0.0.6 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 103.255.255.255 ifconfig wl0 103.0.0.6 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 103.255.255.255 iptables -t filter -I INPUT 2 -p udp --dport 4305 --sport 4305 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -I INPUT 2 -p udp --dport 4306 --sport 4306 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -I INPUT 2 -p udp --dport 4307 --sport 4307 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT 2 -p udp --dport 4305 --sport 4305 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT 2 -p udp --dport 4306 --sport 4306 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT 2 -p udp --dport 4307 --sport 4307 -j ACCEPT batmand eth0.0 eth0.1 wl0 &

batman is then running and x-wrt (the web gui sees it's running)

However, it reports no nodes in sight. If I run batman -d 4 eth0.0 eth0.1 wl0 I am only receiving data from that machine (same ip) if I grep -v its ip there's nothing except for "no nodes in range."

The routers are all connected I can ssh into any of them 3-8 but I can only get internet if I'm attached to the router plugged in to the internet. I tried changing the preferred gateway to the machine 103.0.0.3 with an internet connection but it didn't work.

I didn't change the bssids as you recommended, but it seems there is no bssid splitting. (Oh, it reports 11 clients, I'm running six routers right now...)

What should I see? what should the ip range be?

│ Name : project │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ SSID : project │ │ │ │ Server : localhost:2501 │ │ │ │ BSSID : 92:6E:ED:16:90:48 │ │ │ │ Carrier : IEEE 802.11g │ │ │ │ Manuf : Unknown │ │ │ │ Max Rate: 54.0 Clients : 11 │ │ │ │ Type : Ad-hoc │ │ │ │ Info : │ │ │ │ Channel : 10 │ │ │ │ Privacy : No │ │ │ │ Encrypt : None │ │ │ │ Beacon : 25600 (26.214400 sec) IP Type : UDP (4 octets) │ │ │ │ IP Range: 103.0.0.5