Mesh Networking Interoperability (Dan Williams)

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 23:04 -0400, Andrew Clunis wrote:
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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)

Right; that's the problem.  I doubt it would work on those distros
without a lot of work.  Basically, if you want an XO mesh interoperable
device that's _not_ using the Marvell Libertas 8388 chipset, you need
full access to the driver source, and if the device is a fullmac chip,
the firmware sources too.  I'd imagine most softmac cards would be much
easier to deal with because the smarts are in the driver, not the
firmware.

Dan

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> Andrew Clunis
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