Ninux.org Wireless Community

As (many of) you can read from our blog(s) [-1][0][1][2][3], in March many ninux.org folks from Pisa, Rome and Sicily went to Catalunya for the Battlemesh v4. It was a great event, where we met our friends from all around Europe and had a lot of fun!

You can get an idea of the mood of the event from this video masterpiece from ZioPRoTo!

Enjoy and hope to see you all at the next Battlemesh!

Wireless Battle Mesh V4 from Saverio Proto on Vimeo.

Wireless Battle Mesh v4

(16-20 March 2011, Sant Bartomeu del Grau, Spagna Catalogna)

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La prossima ‘Wireless Battle of the Mesh’ avrà luogo da mercoledì 16 a domenica 20 Marzo a Sant Bartomeu del Grau (80km da Barcellona), Spagna (Catalogna). L’evento ha lo scopo di riunire persone da tutt’Europa per mettere alla prova le prestazioni di differenti protocolli di routing per reti ad-hoc, come Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, e OLSR.

Se sei un appassionato dell’argomento, se sei un attivista delle reti comunitarie o ti interessano le reti mesh, devi assolutamente venire!

Maggiori informazioni sull’evento possono essere trovate sul sito: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV4

Luogo

L’evento si terrà al Can Roca turistic resort a Sant Bartomeu del Grau, in Catalogna, nell’area dei pre-Pyrenees Lluçanès, a circa 80 km da Barcellona.

Registrazione

Sara’ possibile registrarsi in diversi hackerspace (Fusolab, HSBXL, /tmp/lab, metalab, CCC, …) e sul sito ufficiale dell’evento: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV4

Quota

Ogni partecipante dovrebbe donare 50 Euro (per coprire i costi del campeggio e dell’infrastruttura). Per finanziare l’evento, ti chiediamo di pagare al momento della registrazione (bonifico o contanti).

Contatti

* Web: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV4

* Email: wbmv4_aatt_exo_dot_cat

* IRC: irc.freenode.net #battlemesh

Su Internet Magazine di settembre è uscito un articolo sul Wireless Battle of the Mesh v3! Il pdf si può scaricare da qui.

Clauz

Hello World !

this weekend for the first time I partecipated to a Battle of the Mesh, an event organized periodically to test routing protocol implementations for mesh networks.

First of all I have to thank a lot Benjamin Henrion for the great hospitality !! He hosted us the all weekend and we really felt like at home !

There were about 15 people at Okno coming from all across Europe to experiment together for a weekend. Activities were organized with a wiki page, that now contains a lot of useful information.

I went with Claudio. We have been identified as the olsrd team, even if we are not real core developers but we just contributed to the project with a couple of plugins. However, we successfully worked on olsrd, and with the help of Szczepan Jany we found a bug in the current stable version that was fixed right away by the real olsrd developers that were following our progress online.

Another good thing about the event is that I got much more familiar with the OpenWRT toolchain insights, and with the UCI interface to push settings into the router.

What was really impressive was the big amout of hardware available! We had countless Foneras on our desk and also many other wireless devices !! Nicolas Thill developed a set of scripts to configure in batch multiple devices. The key idea was to compile a firmware with an embedded public ssh key, so that automated scripts could push UCI settings into the devices. To loop between the devices a list of MAC addresses is passed to the script that hacks the ARP cache to jump from one device to another… of course all this is documented on the wiki

The only thing that was bad to me was the terrible cold I got on Saturday, that made me feel like a zombie for the all day I have to say I enjoyed much more Friday and Sunday !! Hopefully Pieter healed me on Saturday night with some “Rum & Honey” Belgian medicine

More pictures of the event have been published here.

I hope to see many people present at the Battle of the Mesh very soon in Rome for the Ninux Day !

Saverio

Giusto qualche foto…
Clauz

Update: altre foto qui.