# Homenet (hnet) Documentation

**URL:** <https://forum.openwrt.org/t/homenet-hnet-documentation/209>\
**Category:** Talk about Documentation\
**Created:** [November 7, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/homenet-hnet-documentation/209 "2016-11-07T14:35:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![richb-hanover](https://forum.openwrt.org/user_avatar/forum.openwrt.org/richb-hanover/32/26_2.png) [@richb-hanover](https://forum.openwrt.org/u/richb-hanover)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/homenet-hnet-documentation/209/1 "2016-11-07T14:35:35Z")

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I see that we now describe hnet (the Homenet routing protocol) in the documentation at [https://wiki.lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/basic-ipv4-configuration](https://wiki.lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/basic-ipv4-configuration). It appears to have been brought over from my version of the documentation at the Homenet site.

This both thrills me (Yay! I'm famous!) and scares me (because I never really saw it work.)

[The back story: about three months ago, I wrote the documentation with the help of several Homenet developers, who thought it was correct. I was able to get Homenwt/hnetd installed on an early version of LEDE, but it didn't work entirely according to the documentation. I got busy, and never had a chance to set up a reproducible test case that would confirm whether it was LEDE, hnetd, or my instructions. Three months later, the page sits there, with its warnings at the bottom.]

So here's the dilemma: I seriously _want_ Homenet to work. It solves all kinds of home networking, IPv6 connectivity, routing, resource discovery, etc. problems. But I ran out of time to test it personally, so I can't vouch for the documentation, yet.

I added a note to the LEDE page with a link to this article, so that any brave adventurers who read it can continue this discussion.

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**Author:** ![bobafetthotmail](https://forum.openwrt.org/user_avatar/forum.openwrt.org/bobafetthotmail/32/39_2.png) [@bobafetthotmail](https://forum.openwrt.org/u/bobafetthotmail)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/homenet-hnet-documentation/209/2 "2016-11-07T15:33:56Z")

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😄

Ok, might be a better idea to move it to its own article then, to keep it out of basic configuration articles.

I think we all want the basic LEDE configuration articles to be and look airtight.

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**Author:** ![richb-hanover-priv](https://forum.openwrt.org/letter_avatar/richb-hanover-priv/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@richb-hanover-priv](https://forum.openwrt.org/u/richb-hanover-priv)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/homenet-hnet-documentation/209/3 "2021-08-25T11:05:43Z")

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**Update:** The Homenet website seems to have gone off the air in 2020. A copy of the site from 2018 is on [the Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831161552/http://homewrt.org/start)