Hi,
Is it possible to use BATMAN with two backbone network cards?
I am hoping to make nodes with three radio cards - two at 5Ghz and one 2Ghz card for customer access.
I have been playing around with openwrt on gateworks boards (4 miniPCI slots) and three radio cards. In my testing I've only been using typical AP / STA setups on the "backbone" radio cards and I'm using OSPF to handle dynamic routing. I'm handing my MESH "intelligence" (making one node's STA card associate to a close-by strong signal node's AP card) with Perl scripts.
I've got problems with my test system not avoiding circular loops and ignoring the bandwidth supply node(s). I think I've gone on the wrong path trying to re-invent the MESH wheel so I'm now looking into BATMAN as a possibility.
thanks for any information!
Derek
Hi -
Is it possible to use BATMAN with two backbone network cards?
multiple network interfaces are supported, but the current routing metric is based on packet loss and hop count, not actual throughput - this is likely to be suboptimal in some scenarios. Please go ahead and test if it does fit your purpose.
cu elektra
Hi Elektra,
I wonder if I use an omni and a higher gain directional antenna would it work itself out? Longer distance links would find the directional antennas would give a better association an hopefully less packet loss while still having the same hop count.
Then again if the higher gain directional antennas all saw each other (like with a higher node density) then it would end up being a single card MESH system with unused cards and antennas.
I'm trying to find out if OLSR is the same with multi card systems
thanks
Derek
On Thu, July 31, 2008 2:43 am, elektra wrote:
Hi -
Is it possible to use BATMAN with two backbone network cards?
multiple network interfaces are supported, but the current routing metric is based on packet loss and hop count, not actual throughput - this is likely to be suboptimal in some scenarios. Please go ahead and test if it does fit your purpose.
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