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HackerSpaceBrussels (HSB) announces the second Wireless Battle Mesh, which aims to test 3 popular WiFi routing protocols (OLSR, Batman and Babel), in Brussels on Saturday and Sunday 17-18 October 2009.

Wireless Mesh Battle: OLSR vs. BATMAN vs. Babel

Agenda

• Tue 06 Oct @ 21:00: final IRC meeting to prepare the design of the networks (see below)
• Sat 10 Oct @19:30: IPv6 presentation (Filip P.) + panel on possibilities & pittfalls of IPv6 for free networks
• Tue 13 Oct - Fri 16 Oct: OpenWRT workshops (openwrt installation & configuration, kamikaze build environment, ssh keys infrastructure, firmware generation, UCI configuration tool, asterisk/ SIP phone)
• Fri 16 Oct @ 18:00 : Deploy the nodes
• Sat 17 Oct @ 14:00: Deploy the nodes, setup tests
• Sat 17 Oct @ 19:00: concert "I'm sitting under an antenna" v.a., org. by OKNO
• Sun 18 Oct @ 14:00: The battle! :-)

IRC meetings

We setup some IRC meetings to prepare the configuration: IP's, versions, and everything that took too much time at WBM v1. The meetings will be held on the tuesdays of 15 and 22 September and 06 October at 21:00 CET on irc.freenode.net channel #hsbxl. People from Brussels and around are invited to join us at the hackerspace.

Fee

The event is free. We'll kindly ask you for a donation to cover some costs.

Location

Okno
Quai des Charbonnages 30-34
1080 Brussels
http://okno.be
http://tinyurl.com/oknomap

Transport

• Metro: Compte de Flandres / Graaf van Vlaanderen
• Train: Go to Brussels central station and take metro from there (metro 5 direction Erasmus)
• Route planner in Brussels

Registration

Space is limited, so we ask you to register in advance by registering:

1. send an email with your name and surname to contact@voidpointer.be AND
2. register on Doodle

Requirements

• Bring your laptop/computer
• Bring your compatible router(s) with OpenWRT pre-installed
• Bring your WiFi antenna(s) and connectors

Accomodation

• Zoobab is offering some free space to sleep (contact him at zoobab@gmail.com)
• If you have problems finding accomodation, let us know (contact@voidpointer.be) — there always be some couches free at HSB.

Contact

Email: contact@voidpointer.be
Tel (ptr_): +32 493 52 50 09
Tel (zoobab): +32 484 56 61 09

24c3, Chaos Communication Congress: Aaron Kaplan from the OLSR developing team and member of the Austrian funkfeuer community had a short lightning talk on the recent improvements of the OLSR protocol, which they now call OLSR-NG.

Direct Google Video Link: http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=3501185913224554107

The whole lightning talk session can be downloaded via the torrent network (torrents below). 

Marek Lindner and Simon Wunderlich from the Berlin freifunk community gave a talk on Wireless Kernel Tweaking and the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol at the 24c3 Chaos Communication Congress. The video is now available on the torrent network. I also uploaded it to Google Video.

Google Video: http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=1355876033101731617

(via Marek Lindner) Time: Wednesday 20^th June 2007 / Place: c-base berlin

The B.A.T.M.A.N.-developer team would be happy to celebrate with YOU the 0.2 release of B.A.T.M.A.N. at the C-Base (in Berlin). FYI, there will also be a free barrel of cool beer waiting to be flushed. Version 0.2 can reasonably be called stable now. It works quite performant, supports multiple interfaces, has a low CPU-load, a robustly working algorithm underneath, and autonomously negotiates UDP-Tunnels to GWs  which ultimately enables long-term and stable internet connections. A number of users reported quite excitedly about the amazing experiences they made with this protocol. Well, we want to stay neutral so join in to hear them and try batman for yourself.

Currently B.A.T.M.A.N is available for Linux only. The ports for Mac OS-X and BSD have fallen asleep and are waiting for a diligent bee ... Maybe there will once also exist a windows port.

Many thanks to all the people who helped to realize this in such a short amount of time.