[feature] Add support for BATMAN-adv and 802.11s mesh interfaces in O… #369
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Checklist
Reference to Existing Issue
Closes #368
Description
This PR adds comprehensive support for BATMAN-adv (Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking) mesh networking protocol and 802.11s wireless mesh interfaces to the OpenWrt backend.
Changes
New Interface Types
Implements three new interface types for the OpenWrt backend:
batadv: Main BATMAN-adv virtual mesh interfacebatadv_hardif: Physical/hard interfaces for mesh participationmesh: Convenience alias for 802.11s wireless mesh interfaces (equivalent tobatadv_hardif)Schema Extensions
mesh_fwding,mesh_rssi_threshold)Converter Implementation
Interfacesconverter_intermediate_batadv,_intermediate_batadv_hardif,_intermediate_mesh_netjson_batadv,_netjson_batadv_hardif,_netjson_meshWireguardPeersconverter to properly filter blocks by typeDocumentation
docs/source/backends/openwrt.rst(197 lines)Files Changed
docs/source/backends/openwrt.rst(+197 lines)netjsonconfig/backends/openwrt/converters/interfaces.py(+58 lines)netjsonconfig/backends/openwrt/converters/wireguard_peers.py(+7 lines)netjsonconfig/backends/openwrt/schema.py(+116 lines)netjsonconfig/schema.py(+46 lines)Total: 424 insertions, 1 deletion
Testing
Backward Compatibility