My Own Mesh Network
Hello everyone,
Last week, I played a little with babel and managed to export source-sensitive routes and use them. It was mainly the work of Matthieu, as I used his routers to manage my packets, but I got nice routes for two packets with the same destination :
$ mtr 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1004 --address 2001:41d0:1:f19f:868f:69ff:fef0:338e -t
My traceroute [v0.82]
martin (::) Tue Jul 15 20:26:29 2014
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 2001:41d0:1:f19f:21b:b1ff:fe83:8d32 0.0% 117 3.3 1.2 0.7 11.2 1.2
2. 2001:41d0:1:f19f:e246:9aff:fe4e:912e 37.6% 117 2.1 2.4 1.7 8.0 1.0
3. 2001:41d0:1:f19f::1 36.8% 117 9.3 9.5 7.6 25.8 3.2
4. 2001:41d0:1:f1ff:ff:ff:ff:fd 7.8% 117 63.6 11.9 8.0 73.1 8.7
5. 2001:41d0::6b1 41.0% 117 11.7 11.9 8.3 61.9 7.1
6. 2001:41d0::b82 23.1% 117 13.9 14.7 12.3 43.4 4.1
7. 2001:41d0::16f 96.6% 117 44.9 22.6 13.8 44.9 14.9
8. 2001:41d0::832 0.0% 117 13.2 16.0 12.0 62.0 6.2
9. 2001:4860::1:0:4a3a 0.0% 117 15.7 21.3 12.6 39.8 8.1
10. 2001:4860:0:1::66f 0.0% 117 16.0 14.6 12.5 34.0 3.1
11. 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1004 0.0% 117 12.8 14.2 12.3 28.4 2.7
$ mtr 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1004 --address 2001:660:3301:9208::01de -t
My traceroute [v0.82]
martin (::) Tue Jul 15 20:27:50 2014
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 2001:5c0:1505:6b00:21b:b1ff:fe83:8d32 0.6% 165 1.9 1.2 0.7 5.5 0.8
2001:5c0:1505:6b00:21b:b1ff:fe83:8d3b
2. 2001:660:3301:9208:e246:9aff:fe4e:912e 1.2% 165 2.0 2.3 1.7 8.0 0.9
3. 2001:660:3301:9202::ac17:2ffe 1.8% 165 2.2 2.6 1.8 18.7 1.6
4. 2001:660:3301:80fc::4 0.0% 165 2.5 3.3 2.2 27.9 2.7
5. 2001:660:2401:2001::1 0.0% 165 2.6 4.0 2.3 40.9 5.1
6. 2001:660:3300:1004:0:82:0:2200 44.2% 165 2.7 3.4 2.5 14.6 1.6
7. 2001:660:7903:124:1::1 61.0% 165 33.7 8.9 3.3 70.0 11.8
8. 2001:660:7903:3:2::2 9.1% 165 3.0 4.4 2.8 47.1 5.4
9. 2001:660:7904:10:2::2 0.0% 165 3.1 4.2 2.9 25.7 3.2
10. 2001:4860::1:0:4a3a 0.0% 164 3.5 9.3 3.3 58.7 7.8
11. 2001:4860:0:1::66f 0.0% 164 5.4 4.4 3.5 14.6 1.6
12. 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1004 0.0% 164 3.8 4.0 3.2 16.7 1.5
This test was accomplished because Matthieu installed source-sensitive routes on the routers. My goal now is to create my own scenario where I can test source-sensitive routing in Babel. Here is the network plan I will reproduce :
![My Own Mesh Network]("http://ofabre.github.io/explanationBabel.jpg")
Juliusz suggested me to add the node B in order to avoid some potential errors in the future. It has something to do with the mecanism of Babel and I did not deeply understand the possible issue. I will try only with A first and then add B. The goal is to see packets going via N1 or N2 according to their source, with traceroute.
I am facing right now software issues, such as installing two wifi transmitters on the same computer, but this network is my goal for this week. You will have news next week about it.