[Server-devel] Alternatives to Mesh antennas for testing

[John Watlington]

On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Tony Pearson wrote:

>
> Greg,
> You wrote "where can I buy a mesh antenna locally?".  I haven't  
> received the one I requested from OLPC, nor
> an email on whether I was approved or not from last week's  
> request, ... yet.

We are currently out of Active Antennas.   We should have more next  
week.
They are not commercially available anywhere.

> Here is what I was thinking we can do in the meantime:
>
> (ISP)-------------(hub)---------eth0 [XS] eth1 ------------ 
> (WiFi)----[ XO ]

That configuration works fine, and is the recommended one for any school
with more than around 150 students.   The schoolserver will  
automatically
place the second NIC behind the NAT and provide services to it.

> I would purchase a NIC card for "eth1" and a second (WiFi).   This  
> might help test dansguardian and squid effectiveness.
> Since you are the Cisco expert, do you think that would work?   
> Would it be helpful?  I realize it would solve any Mesh-related
> issues, but might help work out any bugs on the filtering/caching  
> side fo this.