Thanks for the info Guys! <br><br>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.<br>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.
<br><br>Flavio<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:dcbw@redhat.com">dcbw@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 23:04 -0400, Andrew Clunis wrote:<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>><br>> Dan Williams wrote:<br>> > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:22 -0300, Flavio Coelho wrote:
<br>> >> Hi,<br>> >><br>> >> I am no expert in wireless networking, so forgive me if I say<br>> >> something stupid. ;-)<br>> >><br>> >> Regarding the network interoperability, Dan mentions (see below) that
<br>> >> 802.11b/g routers could participate in the mesh after a firmware<br>> >> upgrade.<br>> ><br>> > Somebody would have to do the work to implement the quasi-802.11s<br>> > support for OpenWRT/ddwrt/etc, but if that got done the technically they
<br>> > could be used to extend the mesh.<br>><br>> That's assuming that hardware is thin enough that bcm43xx could be<br>> hacked to support 802.11s...<br>><br>> (NB: openwrt, ddwrt, et al still use the proprietary Broadcom driver)
<br><br>Right; that's the problem. I doubt it would work on those distros<br>without a lot of work. Basically, if you want an XO mesh interoperable<br>device that's _not_ using the Marvell Libertas 8388 chipset, you need
<br>full access to the driver source, and if the device is a fullmac chip,<br>the firmware sources too. I'd imagine most softmac cards would be much<br>easier to deal with because the smarts are in the driver, not the
<br>firmware.<br><br>Dan<br><br>> - --<br>> Regards,<br>> Andrew Clunis<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)<br>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">
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