[neilalexander]

For what it’s worth, I have been able to get the Yggdrasil Network (https://yggdrasil-network.github.io) to peer over AWDL, allowing nearby Macs to mesh without even being connected to the same Wi-Fi network, or any network at all.

It’s not perfect - there are trade offs, like how the wireless performance is reduced somewhat when AWDL is active due to channel hopping and how AWDL expects a single node to play the role of clock sync source. It’s also not very well tested yet.

However, it works and in theory it allows an infrastructure-free IPv6 mesh network to be built ad-hoc.

[big_chungus]

Any chance you could throw together a quick blog post on this? Or maybe a quick gist; doesn't have to be polished.

[neilalexander]

Sure thing - I threw this together over the last hour or so: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2019/08/19/awdl.html

[big_chungus]

Thanks, that was an educational read. Much appreciated.

[theresistor]

I would be very interested to learn more about this if you have any pointers.

[neilalexander]

Happy to help where I can. What would you like to know?