On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:08 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:01, Caroline Meeks<carol...@solutiongrove.com> > wrote: > > I am at a talk on Open Mesh as a low cost solution for schools. Are people > > here familiar with this? > > > > http://open-mesh.com/store/ > > > > Will local collaboration work with Open Mesh? Will it work per AP just like > > other wireless solutions or will it collaborate across the mesh devices? > > From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address, Salut (sugar > collaboration without a server) will work between machines in the same > segment of a local network or a point-to-point link. > > If it will work in some of their setups, it's them to answer. > > Btw, the term mesh is very general, so we should avoid using it if > it's not clear from the context to what we are referring to.
in more detail: - radio-mesh (layer 1-2) known as 802.11s - ip-mesh (layer 2-3). known as olsr / B.A.T.M.A.N and derified routing protocols (google for freifunk and furerfunk) In your case: Open-Mesh.com a based on B.A.T.M.A.N. see http://www.blogin.it/ Generally they use adhoc-mode on the wifi-card with is not supported well on all cards. Large networks seem to break. It works better in a city wide lan rather than classroom based. (based on experiances of freifunk) XO's have 802.11s. http://www.open80211s.org/ is working on a opensource implenmentation. OLSR / B.A.T.M.A.N. can work on Sugar if the networkcard supports adhoc IHMO: Both are not really usable for high performance wifi like a class room. FYI: I am building a wifi benchmark setup. http://bsd.wifisoft.org/trac/wiki/wireless_benchmark Currently a am testing FreeBSD access points (homebrew). Soon as I have a base line, I can test some Fon, Linksys and other boxes. In time more testing materials (accesspoints) are welcome. P.s I have send an email to saxnet to get info about their type of mesh, but did not hear of them jet. kind regards, Marten > > Marten Vijn > linux 2.0.18 OpenBSD 3.6 FreeBSD 4.6 > http://martenvijn.nl > http://opencommunitycamp.org > http://wifisoft.org > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep