Index: script,lightning.txt ================================================================== --- script,lightning.txt +++ script,lightning.txt @@ -47,11 +47,10 @@ - It's important to note that all Community-Lab's software and documentation is “free as in freedom” so you can use them to setup your own CONFINE testbed. *##* ** Community-Lab as community infrastructure - - Besides supporting experimentation, CONFINE helps physically extend CNs *##* not only with new Community-Lab nodes, but also with new links… - … and even services hosted in nodes like web servers, video broadcast stations, etc. to be used by the community. *##* - In a more sophisticated approach, nodes can also be used to implement cloud @@ -70,19 +69,19 @@ several of them simultaneously as VMs (the so called slivers). - Slivers can access the CN via NAT, natively at the network layer, or in an isolated VLAN for routing experiments. *##* ** Technologies -- Nodes are moderately powerful computers (like this barebone computer) - connected via Ethernet to normal community devices (i.e. routers). *##* +- Nodes are moderately powerful hosts (like this barebone computer) connected + via Ethernet to normal community devices (i.e. routers). *##* - Nodes run OpenWrt with a control daemon written in Lua. Slivers are - implemented as light Linux containers. We are working on safe node upgrade - using kexec. *##* + implemented as light Linux containers. We are also working on safe node + upgrade using kexec. *##* - The GUI and REST API in servers are implemented as Django applications. - The IPv6 overlay used for the management network is a tinc mesh VPN. *##* -- We use Git, Redmine, Jenkins and our Virtual CONFINE Tesbed (VCT) package - for development and testing. *##* +- Finally, we use Git, Redmine, Jenkins and our Virtual CONFINE Tesbed (VCT) + package for development and testing. *##* * Collaborations - CONFINE actively collaborates to the development of several Free software projects: the OpenWrt router distro, the BMX6 and OLSR mesh routing protocols, the DLEP protocol for collecting link characteristics, the NodeDB @@ -96,12 +95,12 @@ documentation of the testbed to make it more maintainable and usable for the long term. - We will also start work on federating CONFINE testbeds between themselves and with PlanetLab-like testbeds using the Slice-based Federation Architecture. -- We will be gradually opening the Community-Lab testbed to all kinds of - external users in the networking and academic communities. *##* +- Finally, we will be gradually opening the Community-Lab testbed to all kinds + of external users in the networking and academic communities. *##* * Participate! - So this was a very schematic summary about community networks, the CONFINE project and its Community-Lab testbed. - For more information you can visit these links or meet us in person in the