NomadNet VS meshnet-lab

Compare NomadNet vs meshnet-lab and see what are their differences.

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NomadNet

Posts with mentions or reviews of NomadNet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.

meshnet-lab

Posts with mentions or reviews of meshnet-lab. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-31.
  • Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2023
    Most of the mobility testing has been performed either in the meshnet-lab[1] or the pineconesim[2].

    As the original author of that documentation, it's quite entertaining to have it quoted back to me. :-) In any case the routing "prefers" links labelled as the internet when there is a tiebreak between two peerings between the same pair of nodes, i.e. you are connected to some other device via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth simultaneously.

    And while it is true that Pinecone cannot necessarily always make the best routing decision based on public keys alone, aggressive queue management attempts to provide the best QoS for all flows and it scales very well because nodes maintain only a small amount of state about their position in the spanning tree and their position in the SNEK. Importantly, shortcuts can and often are taken when Pinecone switches to tree-based routing as the geometric distance to the destination on the tree is evaluated at each hop. Routing "by the SNEK" is used primarily to find the remote node and as a fallback in case the tree routing fails.

    [1] https://github.com/mwarning/meshnet-lab

  • XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2021
    Lots of interesting stuff there - thanks :) We're using https://github.com/mwarning/meshnet-lab rather than imunes.net for network simulation currently, but will take a look.

    Power usage is looking pretty positive so far; as long as we route the Matrix traffic over the routing topology rather than going full-mesh it should minimise radio usage (the main battery suck, other than screen).

    For store-and-forward, honestly using P2P Nodes as intermediaries is an okay approach other than exposing metadata to them. Our plan in the longer term is to switch to loopix-style mixnets to obfuscate the store and forwarding, a la nym.

    In terms of joining the network by deriving a private key from a passphrase... yup, that could be cute, although slightly terrifying in terms of the risk of weak passphrases :)

    We're hoping to get the P2P network stable in the coming year (although we were also aiming for this year originally :P)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing NomadNet and meshnet-lab you can also consider the following projects:

meshtastic - Meshtastic project website and documentation

Reticulum - The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.

cinny - Yet another matrix client

disaster-radio - A (paused) work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.

libremdb - A free & open source IMDb front-end.

sucks - Simple command-line script for the Ecovacs series of robot vacuums

Sideband - LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports.

polyjuice_server

fake_contacts - Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning.

wg-meshconf - WireGuard full mesh configuration generator.

matrix-bifrost - General purpose bridging with a variety of backends including libpurple and xmpp.js

ocaml-matrix - Implementation of a matrix server in OCaml for MirageOS