On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:59 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:13:55PM +0200, Marten Vijn wrote: > > > Generally they use adhoc-mode on the wifi-card with is not supported > > well on all cards. > Do you know this for sure for OpenMesh? > no I don't, (I don't have the hardware nor did I test it)
The word "Generally" implies so. But a referral on thier website: https://www.open-mesh.com/store/categories.php?category=Who-is-%22Open% 252dMesh%22%3F refeers to ROBIN not to 802.11s http://www.blogin.it/ Further ip-mesh has to be done in ad-hoc modus to have egal peers. Building a wifi network infrastrucure would not be a mesh. But aslo would allow dynanic (routing with B.A.T.M.A.N / Robin / olsr / lvrouted / ospf) They use the Atheros chipset > with multiple network interfaces (ath0..ath2) in Linux and always use > the acronym "AP" when they talk about client-side network interfaces > (it's an infrastructure mesh). > Unless use 11s you can't have an infastrasture mesh. Infrastructure means a master and a client. In mesh you have equal peers. Atheros depends on a hardware abstraction layer. Depending on this it can do monitoring / client / ad-hoc /master. For client mode you can substitute infrastructure/managed For master mode you can substitute hostap / ap. Then there are possible combinations 11b/g/a and maybe s/n. ip-mesg (olsr) ends after 5 hops (20% per hop loss, not usable traffic after 5 hops). > 29$ (US version) / 39$ (EU version) for a mesh-capable (even if "just" > layer 3), open source powered AP (including an ethernet interface in > each device) sure seems like a bargain. > > Maybe you some free ones from FON, create a benchmark (dbs). Anyway, I have a FON board and will come with test results later for bridging-mode :) I don't have high expectations for ip-mesh nor from radio-mesg. So even if open-Mesh has 802.11s I would not use in class. cheers Marten CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- 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