[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: WRT Emulator

Sat Dec 23 18:51:11 UTC 2006

Fred Pook schrieb:
> Pls. read siv's question below:,
> thanks, fred
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Siv Chand Koripella* <sivchand at gmail.com <mailto:sivchand at gmail.com>>
> Date: Dec 23, 2006 8:17 PM
> Subject: WRT Emulator
> To: rene at absorb.it <mailto:rene at absorb.it>, dpaufler at leo34.net 
> <mailto:dpaufler at leo34.net>, fredpook at gmail.com <mailto:fredpook at gmail.com>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to get into development with OpenWRT. My question is "Are
> there any WRT emulators?" Because I want to have a sandbox where I can
> test my code before I could actually flash it onto a linksys.

yes, there are some possibilities:
there are some people playing with an AR7port in an qemu, but this is 
not ready for use.

a working solution is an x86-port in qemu.
OpenWrt produces an image for memorycards, this image has a 
partitiontable and an MBR, if you do an
qemu -hda blafa.image -nographic
then you will see openwrt booting.
the -nographic is important, becaus openwrt boots with a serial console 
and -nographic redirects the first serial line to stdio.
with additional parameter, you will get network support, as explained in 
the qemu manpage.
a setup like this is being used produktive for an virtual wrt vpn server 
for freifunk-hannover.

an other possibility is the openwrt-uml port, i did not play with that 
because it is too linuxspecific and doe not run with FreeBSD or darwin, 
AFAIR are some people in france working on/with it.

> 
> One more Will it be a good idea to run the backbone in mesh and users
> connecting to the network in managed  mode? This is because people (in
> India) will be paranoid when we tell then that the data may be routed
> through others machines?
> 
> How is the community that uses mesh has any objections with their data
> being routed through others machines?

encryption has to be end to end, encryption is the job of the enduser.

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Shiva
> 
> 

greets, alex