When the devices have been installed and provisioned, you can use them with Reticulum by adding the relevant interface section to the configuration file of Reticulum. In the configuraion you can specify all interface parameters, such as serial port and on-air parameters.

It is possible to use all kinds of both short- and long-range WiFi-based hardware with Reticulum. Any kind of hardware that fully supports bridged Ethernet over the WiFi interface will work with the AutoInterface in Reticulum. Most devices will behave like this by default, or allow it via configuration options.

This means that you can simply configure the physical links of the WiFi based devices, and start communicating over them using Reticulum. It is not necessary to enable any IP infrastructure such as DHCP servers, DNS or similar, as long as at least Ethernet is available, and packets are passed transparently over the physical WiFi-based devices.

Below is a list of example WiFi (and similar) radios that work well for high capacity Reticulum links over long distances:

• Ubiquiti airMAX radios (https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-airmax-devices)

• Ubiquiti LTU radios (https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-ltu)

• MikroTik radios (https://mikrotik.com/products/group/wireless-systems)

This list is by no means exhaustive, and only serves as a few examples of radio hardware that is relatively cheap while providing long range and high capacity for Reticulum networks. As in all other cases, it is also possible for Reticulum to co-exist with IP networks running concurrently on such devices.

Reticulum can run over any kind of hardware that can provide a switched Ethernet-based medium. This means that anything from a plain Ethernet switch, to fiber-optic systems, to data radios with Ethernet interfaces can be used by Reticulum.

The Ethernet medium does not need to have any IP infrastructure such as DHCP servers or routing set up, but in case such infrastructure does exist, Reticulum will simply co-exist with.

To use Reticulum over Ethernet-based mediums, it is generally enough to use the included AutoInterface. This interface also works over any kind of virtual networking adapter, such as tun and tap devices in Linux.

Using Reticulum over any kind of raw serial line is also possible with the SerialInterface. This interface type is also useful for using Reticulum over communications hardware that provides a serial port interface.

Any packet radio modem that provides a standard KISS interface over USB, serial or TCP can be used with Reticulum. This includes virtual software modems such as FreeDV TNC (https://github.com/xssfox/freedv-tnc) and Dire Wolf (https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf).