[Server-devel] State of the XS

[John Watlington]

Here is my opinion of the state of the XS software:

At this point, the school server supports network services for small
schools (less than 150 students).  This includes:
	- DNS, DHCP, IPv4 routing between meshes and additional servers in a  
school, NAT
	- Support for Active Antenna (driver, firmware, and udev scripts)
         - web caching

Features due to be released in the short term future (next month) are:
         - web filtering (by unanimous request), and
         - limited laptop backup (only modifications to the laptop  
are needed)
         - registration  (needed for laptop backup and presence)
         - presence   (needed to make networking work w. lots of  
laptops)
    (these are all testable using the current build, but not well  
tested)

Features criminally missing (but not to be added in the next month) are:
         - server backup
         - IPv6 support
         - outgoing tunnels
         - configuration interface

We have no timeline for producing a version for deployment in larger  
school
districts (say, Birmingham...)   These are deployments where the server
configuration is not stock.

Cheers,
John