status: 2023q2: BATMAN support for the FreeBSD kernel

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+=== BATMAN support in the FreeBSD kernel
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+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/CallingTheBatmanFreeNetworksOnFreeBSD[Wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/CallingTheBatmanFreeNetworksOnFreeBSD[] +
+link:https://github.com/obiwac/freebsd-gsoc/pull/1[Source code (PR)] URL: https://github.com/obiwac/freebsd-gsoc/pull/1[]
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+Contact: Aymeric Wibo <obiwac@FreeBSD.org>
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+BATMAN (Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networking), as developed and used by the Freifunk project, is a routing protocol for (primarily wireless) multi-hop ad-hoc networks.
+Freifunk is a German initiative to build an open Wi-Fi network at city-scale, based on the principles of net-neutrality.
+BATMAN's motive is to be a completely decentralized protocol; no one node in the network knows or has to care about the topology of the whole network.
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+Support for this protocol is provided by the batman-adv kernel module on Linux, and this project aims to bring that to FreeBSD.
+This includes the kernel module itself, but also userland networking libraries and tools necessary to create BATMAN networks. 
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+Currently, creating interfaces and interacting with them works (with both Linux and FreeBSD userspaces), and packet transmission (kind of) works, although it's incomplete as of yet.
+Support for batadv interfaces has been added to ifconfig(8) too.
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+Mentor: {mmokhi-name}
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+Sponsor: Google (under GSoC 2023)