[OLPC-AU] Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

[David Farning]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
>> <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
>> > Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of hosting
>> > a wireless network.
>> >
>> > I'm asking because we are interested in using an XO as a lightweight XS
>> > server.
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>> The XO 1.75 uses the exact same wifi module as the 1.5 so the
>> functionality is the same, and so you'll be able to on the 1.75,
>> there's still discussion on the OS for the 3.0 but then I'm not sure
>> how usable a tablet would be as a server anyway.
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> If I could be so bold as to posit to the community:  I'm not sure whether
> the request as stated, and answer as given, is actually the case, in an
> out-of-the box, especially  if you have a mixed XO environment.  If by
> acting as an AP, you mean appearing on the neighbourhood view as an AP, and
> not a peer, and then providing a shared internet connection, in my
> experience, that really isn't provided by a vanilla install of the XO
> software, even on the 1.5.

Please see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Server_Kit for more
information on the software that will be running on the
school/classroom server.

The Sugar Server Kit modularized the existing OLPC-XS and provides a
community level 'tool kit' for creating a school or classroom level
servers.


The Sugar Server Kit
"
    Provide a split between the community level project (Sugar Server
Kit) and any number of downstream solutions based on the community
project. This should stimulate the downstream community to contribute
to this upstream community project, facilitating reuse of its
experience in all other downstreams;
    Treat the community project as a collection of useful tools,
created and supported by community contributors, that might be
composed into a final deployment solution on purpose, i.e., Sugar
Server Kit is not an OS or a final solution, but rather a bunch of
tools that might be launched on any major GNU/Linux distribution at
the deployment level. And because some of these tools might be
implemented in several ways, it should make the acceptance process of
new features by upstream more flexible;
    The whole system should be as reliable as possible. Thus, the
community project will provide a decent testing environment (several
levels of automatic and human driven tests at the top level), which
might be used not only for Sugar Server Kit itself, but for deployment
solutions as well.
"

david

> Once all the XO buddies (XO 1 and 1.5) atttach to a 'real' AP, all machines
> on that AP can see each other, and get out to the Internet through the AP's
> running as a router.  In the other case, in a mixed XO1 and XO1.5
> environment where everyone attaches to a single XO 1.5 on the ad-hoc
> network, without some custom routing entries, I can't see it providing a
> shared internet connection.  Not to say it cant be done, but I haven't found
> it to work that way out of the box.
>
> So, I guess it depends on what you mean by 'using an XO as a lightweight XS
> server', and whether you will install your own O/S and a subset of the
> existing XS code on the 1.75,  pretty much like you would have too to on
> the1.5 to get it to act like a real AP and router and server.  Putting a
> wireless router an AP in the middle with a default route to another XO  on a
> separate subnet running some XS server code that in turn connects  out maybe
> the USB ethernet port to the WAN might work.  Without some real  router
> protocols active, hairpinning issues will also arise if you try to just hook
> back to the same subnet.
>
> So bottom line (unless I'm way out of the loop in ancient history - which
> sometimes happens) , is that from what Peter is saying, if you already have
> an acceptable infrastucture which is currently working on an XO 1.5, then
> there is no reason for it not to work on a 1.75.  However it would be my
> prediction that if you were hoping to have a vanilla XO 1.75 now run as a
> WAP, that may still not be as simple as you want.
>
> Cheers
>
> KG
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>> Peter
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