#4069 NORM Never A: Connecting to school server network should happen automatically if XO comes into its range

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#4069: Connecting to school server network should happen automatically if XO comes
into its range
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 Reporter:  arjs                                  |       Owner:  marcelo       
     Type:  defect                                |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal                                |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  wireless                              |     Version:                
 Keywords:  wireless, range, ip, address, assign  |    Verified:  0             
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 Testing at pilot site at Khairat.

 Conditions - A remote village, low density of trees, no other wireless
 network present there. Testing was done line-of-sight. Hardware version
 B4-6, Build 601.


 1) When the XO is initially within the range of school server it is
 assigned an ip from school server (lets say 172.xx series). When say two
 XOs, while keeping them switched on, are simultaneously carried to a place
 where they become out of the range of school server, they can't
 communicate with each other without restarting sugar. It'd help if it can
 be mode possible that XOs determine that they are out of the range of
 school server and establish a connection over the local mesh to be able to
 communicate amongst each other. This would help especially because kids
 when they are doing say some exploration of flowers around the school,
 would frequently be going in and out of the direct range of the school
 server.


 2) The reverse also,  would help, since if 2 kids carrying XOs are doing
 some field work and they come near to the school server, they should be
 reassigned an IP from the school server without having to restart sugar


 3) We brought an XO that was assigned an IP on the local mesh address , in
 the vicinity of an XO that has been assigned an IP from and is within the
 range of the school server. From the XO on the local mesh, we were not
 able to ping either the school server or the other XO linked with the
 school server. Is this supposed to be happening ? This means that if a kid
 with an XO was initially far from school server to be assigned an IP from
 it, that XO would not be able to access the internet even though there
 would be another XO in between it and the school server ?

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4069>
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