mechanisms tied to mesh: "under a tree" collab

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
>>                                      My understanding is that it
>> works automagically between XOs on the same AP -- but may have
>> limitations and possibly bugs as it's not something we push (and it's
>> not something we test much formally ...
>
> My naive understanding was that zeroconf works, so you can run TCP/IP,
> but something about our non-mesh sharing protocol requires a "server"
> somewhere.

I think you are right there. I've been reading up on a bit of the
avahi infra, and thought for a moment it was all avahi-based. I think
it actually was at a time, many moons ago.

> Note that when five kids are sitting under a tree using 802.11s Mesh,
> their radios are talking directly node-to-node.

Definitely. That's why I pointed out a/b/g. 's' definitely is
node-to-node. For a/b/g to work in ad-hoc mode with more than 2 nodes
you need something like Cerebro. You say you don't like it; I say it
works quite well, but if you have something better (different sw or
patches to Cerebro) we'll want to see it.

It's hip to complain about the low-level collaboration layers these
days. But it doesn't help much. What we need are a thousand litle
steps towards something better. Poly has been very active in
supporting Cerebro, he's probably interested in hearing about patches
and/or well defined bugs you may have.

Now, to bring this thread back to course... old-timers and people that
work in areas of the XO software I rarely travel, do you know about
any XO/XS or XO/Internet interaction that depends on an active antenna
/ 802.11s ?

cheers,



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