Hello!
My name is Marcus, I'm 20 and live near FFM in Germany. I've spent the
last 8 month reading and understanding your great mailing-lists, books
and every Webpage I could find on the topic "WLAN & building wireless
community networks". I had a lot of trouble and a lot of success with
the different flavours of Linux and all that nice, free software out
there... ;c)
I've "played" with almost everything I could imagine. NOW, some friend
and me are so crazy after this, that we want to start a open (but
secure!) wireless community in our small town (~17000ppl, even land,
some forests around it and diverted by a small hill (~80m)).
This should definitively not to be considered as a joke or something
like this.... We wanna create something great and useful...
Here our goals/requirements:
1. It should be a dynamic MESH NETWORK with efficient routing. The more
users the Network has, the more possible/redundant routes to a
destination there are and the more overall bandwidth the MAN has --thus
the more user it has, the better it is... *g*
2. The Wireless-Linux-Routers should discover new Nodes and build SECURE
(vpn?) routes to/among them AUTOMATICALY. If wanted it could even
advertise external routes to an other private network or even the
Internet.
3. Any user shall be able to reach ANY OTHER POINT IN THE MAN and the
Internet (if allowed, to do so) while freely roaming through our city.
4. All traffic must be secure and encrypted. Maybe we can use a
VPN-Connection ('cuz WEP is a better joke) between ANY two P2P
connections
(Node<->Node//node<->server//Client<->Node//Client<->Server//etc.) which
sets itself automatically and fully transparent.... but how to do
that???
5. Users MUST authorize themselves to the Authserv to gain access to the
Network. Login is based either on l/p AND mac. Would a single central
auth-server/user-data-server(mysql,etc.) do the job? So Co-Ops could use
something like or NoCat-GW to put up an open Hotspot to the public PPL.
6. Maybe find a way ,to ?aggregate? (add) the bandwidth of all separate
DSL-connections to ONE-BIG (virtual?)Pipe, to which then all traffic for
the Internet (0.0.0.0/0) is (re?)directed.
Any good ideas or experiences with one of the above things? So I'd be
glad if you could point me to some specific stuff (for above) on the web
or tell me how to start and -what is more important- HOW TO PUT EVERY
THING TOGETHER, SO THAT IT FIT'S AND WORKS SMOOTHLY...
greetz to all,
Marcus Wagner
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