[Mesh] Batman basics

[Stuart Gathman]

On 06/24/2017 06:46 AM, John Atkeson wrote:
> I have two Linux PCs in my home network running batman-adv. It's not
> intended to be practical as much as self-educational. 
>
> How does one get them to see each other through the home (wired)
> network, using batman? 
>
> Also, am I correct in assuming that in layer 2, batman is agnostic
> about the medium of communication (wired vs. wireless)? 
# modprobe batman_adv    (or whatever your distro calls it)
# batctl add eth0                   (or whatever your distro calls the
wired interface)
# ifconfig bat0 10.1.0.1        (10.1.0.2 for the other PC)
# ping 10.1.0.2