Mesh Networking Interoperability (Dan Williams)

[Flavio Coelho]

Thanks for the info Guys!

I  think that it would be a good Idea to publish an open design for a simple
mesh node (that used only off the shelf components) that would act as a
repeater.
Chances success of the XO, would be greatly improved if they could connect
to other meshes such the Meraki networks, nbased on MITs roofnet technology.

Flavio



On 3/16/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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
>
> > - --
> > Regards,
> > Andrew Clunis
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