Mesh Networking Interoperability

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 12:59 +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> There's something that I'm curious about with regard to the mesh
> networking that the laptops use, which i understand is a pre-802.11s
> implementation.
> 
> My query is: is it possible for devices that are not 802.11s aware to
> communicate over this mesh? For instance a laptop or pda that has
> 802.11b or 802.11g support.

No, they use fundamentally different frame types over the air.  The
device must support 802.11s to be able to talk to other mesh nodes.
Your 802.11a/b/g device just won't work without driver and/or firmware
updates from the vendor.

Dan