The Homenet Control Protocol (HNCP)
- The Homenet (hnet) protocol and this documentation were last under development in late 2016. It is unknown whether the
hncppackage works with modern (19.07 and later) versions of OpenWrt. - The Homenet website seems to have gone off the air in 2020. A 2018 version of the site is at The Wayback Machine
- This Forum article also describes the state.
The Homenet Control Protocol (HNCP) automatically manages IPv4 and IPv6 address assignment, routing, DNS, SD (ZeroConf/mDNS) and border firewalling between multiple routers in a “home network”. It is specified as a set of RFCs to implement a minimalist state synchronization protocol for Homenet routers.
Read the materials on the Homenet web site
hnet-full package installs hnetd to implement HNCP protocol, there is also luci-app-hnet, a luci webgui package to control it.
Note: We strongly recommend you install ipset before installing hnet-full
Protocol "hnet"
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mode | string | no | auto | Interface mode. One of external, guest, adhoc or hybrid. |
ip6assign | integer | no | 64 | IPv6-prefix size to assign to this interface if internal. |
ip4assign | integer | no | 24 | IPv4-prefix size to assign to this interface if internal. |
dnsname | string | no | <device-name> | DNS-Label to assign to interface. |
Tutorials
- Juliusz Chroboczek's tutorial: https://www.irif.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/homenet/howto.html
- Tore Anderson's tutorial: https://blog.toreanderson.no/2015/10/11/making-a-homenet-router-out-of-openwrt.html