Hello, local students and resident geeks have collected a series of technologies on top of OpenWRT to establish an IPv6 mesh of Wifi routers. A subset of machines of a mesh island links to the InterNet and all nodes together form a private network. More on http://www.freifunk.net (German).
There are tons of ideas about it all. Mine, which links it to Debian Science a bit, is the support of sensors to those routers (decent enough models with USB ports start at $15) so we get a sensor net. Others see solar devices to have emergency internet set up in a mostly brainless way. Some brain power remains to be required for the setup of gateways to the Internet. Every community needs a few of those, commonly with different providers / hosters. I am now helping with the packaging of that gateway software infrastructure for Debian, hoping to further smoothen the overall experience with such community networks. I'll keep this list informed about respective progress and will eventually point to an apt-get based recipe to set things up. I would like to hear about similar efforts at other corners of the world. Also, if there are corners in the world with an interest to employ this technology, I would do my best to find local mentors and/or to help out myself. My upcoming corner is our Internet-free institute cellar with freezers to cheapishly monitor their temperature. Many greeting Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-340cbe11-c94b-4a16-a55c-dfa41284a56b-1395834383529@3capp-gmx-bs30