Re: [lime-dev] Improvement on Libre-Mesh at HackErasmus #2

The past week I was in Garraf at La Responsable together with Al to work on libre-mesh, here I'll do a little report of the work done: First of all my attention was dedicated to complete stabilize and merge into develop, wireless mode modularization (branch features/modes-modularization), wireless modes supported were implemented directly in wireless core file and didn't support adding of new wireless level configuration modules, so if someone would for example implement support for 802.11s ¹ in libre-mesh had to edit core wireless configuration files, while now he can just implement a mode module, writing very little number of line of code and without the risc of breaking the libre-mesh core. Then guided by testing and features requests emerged talking with Al about emerging communities needs, we decided moving on the following: First I had to change some default values that was giving trouble for example the channel 60 is DFS then radios had some difficult waking up we moved to channel 48 as default that doesn't give such troubles. Then because we had some cheap device around we tried to flash them with libre- mesh but the image was too big, so andother pass of modularization was needed, this time I have splitted protocols support in defferents packages, so for example cheap battery nodes can ship just batman-adv or just bmx6 according to user needs, also debug tools were removed form lime-system depends and splitted to lime-debug tools, so we can install them just when needed and when them fits. This new rounds of modularizations evidenced some bad abits in the code like using a global uci cursor and stuff like that, all things that were fixed before merge in develop ( more detalis on features/onadiet branch ) The new possibility of having a hybrid mesh of nodes having L2+L3 or L2 only support suggested the needs of having bmx6 take advantage also of L2 only piece of mesh so in the branch features/bmx6_over_batman the autoconfiguration module doing this was implemented and then merged into develop The rest of time was used to debug why bmx6 wasn't working as expected that resulted in the discovery that older bmx6 version are working as expected while newer manifest a bug already reported on this mailing list, plus enjoing life :) While waiting fore the dealyed aircraft i was thinking to some odd output of ps command missing dnsmasq then now i have tested and DHCPv4 is not working thanks to libre-mesh new modular nature debug of this part will be easier and hopefully done in following days! Thanks to La Responsable for ospitality and fun time together!! [¹] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11s _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev(a)lists.libre-mesh.org https://lists.libre-mesh.org/mailman/listinfo/dev