IIRC a number of the contributors to the downstream projects of Serval were some of the early contributors to freifunk.net. My understanding is that freifunk w

IIRC a number of the contributors to the downstream projects of Serval were some of the early contributors to freifunk.net. My understanding is that freifunk was a pretty major testbed for peer-to-peer mesh network protocols in Linux, and it's that heritage that's made it into things like Serval and the Mesh Potato. Whilst Serval has moved on to its own OSLR variant, its roots are firmly embedded in the B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol.