Babel is a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4. It is designed to be robust and work efficiently on both wired networks and wireless mesh networks.
| Tags | Internet Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X POSIX Linux BSD OpenBSD |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Major scalability improvements to the implementation (the protocol remains unchanged). Babeld should now handle networks with a few thousands of nodes with minimal CPU usage.


Release Notes: This version avoids a crash in some very unusual settings (running over a wireless interface where the channel is unknown).


Release Notes: This version is able to avoid interference by taking radio frequency into account when selecting routes. Minor tweaks and bugfixes are thrown in.


Release Notes: The default port number is now 6696, as allocated by IANA.


Release Notes: Minor improvements to the interface with network visualization tools.