Commit 8666e390 authored by Juliusz Chroboczek's avatar Juliusz Chroboczek

Update README.

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$ make CC=mipsel-linux-gcc PLATFORM_DEFINES='-march=mips32'
Setting up an IPv6 network for use with Babel
Setting up a network for use with Babel
***************************************
1. Choose a prefix
==================
1. Set up every node's interface
================================
You will want your mesh network to run on a single /64 prefix. If
you've already got IPv6 routing with the rest of the Internet (either
native or using 6to4) and you've got a /64 to spare, use that.
On every node, set up the wireless interface:
If you don't, you can generate a random prefix. RFC 4193 defines how
such prefixes are generated. The simplest way to make sure that you
follow the rules is to use the utility ``ahcp-generate-address'',
which you'll find in the AHCP package.
# iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc channel 11 essid "my-mesh-network"
# ifconfig eth1 up
$ ahcp-generate-address -p -r
fdf0:bb4:f192::
2. Set up every node's IP addresses
===================================
This needs to be done only once for the network; the following steps
need to be repeated for every node.
You will need to make sure that all of your nodes have a unique IPv6
address, and/or a unique IPv4 address.
On every node, run something like:
2. Choose a host number
=======================
# ip addr add 192.168.13.33/32 dev eth1
# ip -6 addr add $(ahcp-generate-address -r)/128 dev eth1
You will need to choose a unique host number for every node. You can
number your nodes sequentially (fdf0:bb4:f192::1, fdf0:bb4:f192::2,
etc.), generate a node number from the interface's MAC address, or
choose it randomly. Again, ``ahcp-generate-address'' knows the rules.
You will find the ahcp-generate-address utility, which can generate
random IPv6 addresses according to RFC 4193, in the ahcpd package.
$ ip -0 addr show dev eth1
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000
link/ieee1394 00:11:d8:00:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$ ahcp-generate-address fdf0:bb4:f192:: 00:11:d8:00:00:12:34:56
fdf0:bb4:f192:0:211:d8ff:fe00:12
This is your IPv6 address; save it for later use.
$ IPv6=fdf0:bb4:f192:0:211:d8ff:fe00:12
3. Start the routing daemon
===========================
On every node, run Babel, making sure you redistribute the local
addresses:
3. Set up the interface
=======================
# babel -C 'redistribute local' eth1
Set up the MAC layer's parameters first:
If your node has multiple interfaces which you want to participate in
the Babel network, just list them all:
$ iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc channel 11
$ iwconfig eth essid "my-wireless-network"
# babel -C 'redistribute local' eth0 eth1 sit1
Then the network layer:
$ ip link set eth1 up
$ ip -6 addr add $IPv6 dev eth1
4. Setting up an Internet gateway
=================================
4. Start the routing daemon
===========================
If you have one or more Internet gateways on your mesh network, you
will want to set them up so that they redistribute the default route.
You will want to say something like
$ babel -X $IPv6 0 $IPv6 eth1
# babel -C 'redistribute local' -C 'redistribute metric 128' eth1
If your node has multiple interfaces which you want to participate in
the Babel network, just list them all:
You may also be more selective in the routes you redistribute, for
instance by specifying the interface over which the route goes out:
# babel -X $IPv6 0 $IPv6 eth0 eth1 sit1
# babel -C 'redistribute local' -C 'redistribute if eth0 metric 128' \
eth1
If your node has multiple addresses and you want all of them to
participate in the routing protocol, just repeat the ``-X'' option
multiple times:
or by constraining the prefix length:
# babel -X $IPv6 0 -X $IPv6-2 0 -X $IPv6-3 0 $IPv6 eth1
# babel -C 'redistribute local' \
-C 'redistribute ip ::/0 eq 128 metric 128' \
-C 'redistribute ip 0.0.0.0/0 eq 32 metric 128' \
eth1
On a gateway to the Internet, you'll want to redistribute some or all
of your routes into the mesh network:
# babel -X $IPv6 0 -C 'redistribute metric 128' $IPv6 eth1
If you find all of this too complicated and error-prone (as I do), you
may want to consider autoconfiguring your routing domain using AHCP:
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/ahcp/
Setting up an IPv4 network for use with Babel
*********************************************
1. Choose an IPv4 address for every node
========================================
Unless you already have a numbering plan in place, you will probably
want to choose adresses in 192.168.0.0/16:
IPv4=192.168.19.68
Of course, the IPv4 address for each node must be unique in your network.
2. Set up the interfaces
=========================
$ iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc channel 11
$ iwconfig eth essid "my-wireless-network"
You will need to manually number all of the interfaces that
participate in IPv4 routing -- unlike IPv6, IPv4 routing doesn't
support unnumbered interfaces.
# ip link set eth1 up
# ip addr add $IPv4 dev eth1
You don't need to set a netmask -- the default netmask of /32
(255.255.255.255) is fine for use with Babel. Also note that you may
set the same IPv4 address on all interfaces of a given node.
2. Start the routing daemon
===========================
# babel -X $IPv4 0 $IPv4 eth1
On a network gateway, you will want to redistribute some routes:
# babel -X $IPv4 0 -C 'redistribute metric 128' $IPv4 eth0 eth1
Setting up a dual-stack network for use with Babel
**************************************************
Babel is designed to efficiently route both IPv6 and IPv4 at the same
time; a single route update may contain both IPv6 and IPv4 routes.
On an ordinary node, you will run Babel as
# babel -X $IPv6 0 -X $IPv4 0 $IPv6 eth1
and on a gateway:
# babel -X $IPv6 0 -X $IPv4 0 -C 'redistribute metric 128' $IPv6 eth1
If you use ahcpd, you will want to add the following to
/etc/ahcp/ahcp-babel-options:
-X 192.168.19.68 0
Juliusz Chroboczek
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