#8524 NORM 8.2.0 (: Anti-Theft Lease Activation over the air fails with AP, only works with Mesh

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#8524: Anti-Theft Lease Activation over the air fails with AP, only works with
Mesh
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 Reporter:  gnu            |         Owner:  mstone              
     Type:  defect         |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal         |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  security       |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:  blocks?:8.2.0  |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                      
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 Since we aren't deploying Mesh for school servers these days, that's a
 problem for countries that want this kind of DRM.  Are any such countries
 planning to deploy 8.2.0?  If so, this is a potential blocker.

 Original report was in devel:

 From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>

 To: "XS Devel" <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>,
    "OLPC Devel" <devel at lists.laptop.org>

 Subject: What mechanisms do we have tied to mesh networking?

 Cc: Greg Smith <greg at laptop.org>

 We are going forward recommending that medium-to-large networks are
 based on conventional APs. However, we still have at least one
 mechanism that works in mesh and not in conventional 802.11.a/b/g .

 The mechanism I am thinking of is initial lease activation (over port
 191) which uses mesh and IPv6 (or a random self assigned IPv4
 address). We've had some discussions with Scott about how to sort
 things out with conventional APs --

 Do we have any other mechanisms that don't (currently) have a fallback
 to 802.11.a/b/g ?

 cheers,

 m
 --
  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect

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