23 Jun
2018
23 Jun
'18
5:22 p.m.
Hi,
So
what I meant with this mail, what is our recommended set of
technologies (aka routing protocols)?
* Stick with BMX6 even tho BMX7 works better?
* Offer a firmware which run babeld without any additional configuration?
* Include wpad-mesh-wolftls to allow directly the use of encrypted mesh
networks?
* Focus more on lime-app and may even remove the Luci webinterface as
it's not compatible with the /etc/config/lime file?
And we need to battle test the new versions of
everything to ensure no
new bugs appeared!
We had many experiences about that from the past, so let's not step onto
the same rock!
Yes, so let's start to offer some firmware images based on the
lime-packages master branch so people can test all the newly introduced
stuff.
Some points to
consider:
* There is a new lime-proto-babeld plugin allowing babeld routing
* The lime-proto-bmx7 plugin and BMX7 itself became way more stable and
has various advances over BMX6
* Using encrypted mesh requires wpand-mesh-{openssl, wolfssl} installed,
aka big crypto libs
* The lime-app shows some basic infos which could satisfy basic user
requirements.
I'm happy to merge flavor PRs and build them on our new snapshot server
for all common targets.
I guess the flavors are a good way to propose the
community a basic set
of packages, but would encourage to use a very basic flavor and then add
packages using Network Profile's PACKAGES file (that work exactly the
same way).
Would leave the flavors use to just the default LibreMesh demo mode :)
(a mode that just works and as our 'recommended' set of technologies).