Mesh Networking Interoperability (Dan Williams)

[Andrew Clunis]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:22 -0300, Flavio Coelho wrote:
>> Hi, 
>>
>> I am no expert in wireless networking, so forgive me if I say
>> something stupid. ;-)
>>
>> Regarding the network interoperability, Dan mentions (see below) that
>> 802.11b/g routers could participate in the mesh after a firmware
>> upgrade. 
> 
> Somebody would have to do the work to implement the quasi-802.11s
> support for OpenWRT/ddwrt/etc, but if that got done the technically they
> could be used to extend the mesh.

That's assuming that hardware is thin enough that bcm43xx could be
hacked to support 802.11s...

(NB: openwrt, ddwrt, et al still use the proprietary Broadcom driver)

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Regards,
Andrew Clunis
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