[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[Kim Quirk]

I thought there might be a wireless driver piece that needed to be
addressed. I gave the PEAP trac item to Michail for comment.

Thanks,
Kim

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:27 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Considering:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> and
> http://www.freebsdmall.com/%
> 7Eloader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html<http://www.freebsdmall.com/%7Eloader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html>
>
> This would be possible and I am willing to put time in this.
>
> If needed, I could put some effort to put it in firmware (tinybsd) for
> any i386 mobo/embedded system.
>
> The XS could to radius (and optinally config AP's with ssh/or/puppet)
>
> Marten
>
> >
> > 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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