From: Petter Reinholdtsen
The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your @@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up. A introduction is available from the Open Mesh project. These are the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:
-Setting | Value |
---|---|
Protocol / kernel module | batman-adv |
ESSID | meshfx@hackeriet | Channel / Frequency | 11 / 2462 | Cell ID | 02:BA:00:00:00:01 | -
The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from