Notes from a Planning Session

[Morgan Collett]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:28 AM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
> > (APs in infrastructure mode) is what is happening
>  > on the ground mostly. Still, it's not good as it kills the
>  > mesh-to-the-school scheme which is one of the key technical goals.
>
>  This should be easy to fix.  Re-enable the NetworkManager code that
>  allows any laptop to gateway the mesh to the Internet.  This all used
>  to work in pre-B4 software, at least for USB Ethernet interfaces.  As
>  long as the wifi chip can simultaneously do meshing and register with
>  an access point (eth0 and msh0) then Internet access over a WiFi access
>  point should look the same to NetworkManager as a wired eth0.

IIRC the problem with this is that collaboration fails on the XO
acting as the gateway. See #3136, #2980 - and of course your own
#4641.

Morgan