[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[Kim Quirk]

Martin, Wad,
We have promised to provide NYC with a schedule for the item you mention,
Martin, trac #6855, as well as support for PEAP. trac #6900. I have told
them that PEAP was a 2009 feature (mainly because I wanted to discourage
them), but they have asked if we can pull it in.

So the next step on these two items is to figure out the development and
test effort associated with these two features. It would be great if people
could add their thoughts into those trac bugs as to what work is needed.

After we have that, we can weigh that against other priorities and come up
with which release to put these in.

Thanks,
Kim

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:26 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> >  If a school is using a mesh, we have a carefully designed system
> >  to ensure that a laptop doesn't go into simple mesh mode, and instead
> >  connects automatically with the school.
> >
> >  If a school is using traditional WiFi, there is no such guarantee.
> >  This is possibly bad, as kids that aren't associated can interfere with
> >  those that are.
>
> When at NYC, you mentioned that the NM searches and prefers the
> school-mesh-<n> essids of mesh-type signals. And that perhaps we could
> make it lock into infrastructure-mode essids of that name with the
> same kind of preference. Would this simple fix help sort the problem
> out?
>
> Also, do we have wikipage of tested APs?
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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