Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:01:20 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless mesh networking Message-ID: <0B02BE09-36C5-4899-8DEC-1C78A269A04B@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090526192342.P55023@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <e1309ba60905240451x1effff08w3873d37dcc95dbfd@mail.gmail.com> <20090526192342.P55023@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-1-923992071 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 26 May 2009, at 11:06, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009, Rui Paulo wrote: >> Hi, >> If anyone is interested in testing out wireless mesh networking under >> FreeBSD, the project has now reached a point where you can transfer >> packets between mesh nodes. > > Always a good point to celebrate :) > >> I try to keep the branch in sync with head (sometimes more than) >> weekly. The branch is located at the FreeBSD svn repo and everyone >> can >> fetch it: >> >> $ svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/projects/mesh11s/ > > Not that I could run it now or even soon, but I'm interested in > having a > look at the code, mostly to try figuring out the scope of what layers > this is working at, and noting that this is my first ever attempted > use > of svn (and if it matters, on a 5.5-S box): > > sola% mkdir 802.11s > sola% cd 802.11s/ > sola% svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/projects/mesh11s/ > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/viewvc/base/projects/mesh11s' > svn: PROPFIND of '/viewvc/base/projects/mesh11s': 301 Moved (http://svn.freebsd.org > ) > > Where to from here? Might there be an old-fashioned tarball? Sorry, what Brooks said. > >> To actually try out mesh networking you need ath(4) because ral(4) >> has >> problems right now. >> >> After building and installing a new world and kernel, you need to >> do this: >> # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode mesh channel 1 meshid >> mymesh >> # ifconfig wlan0 inet w.x.y.z/q up >> >> Channel discovery for mesh networks is not yet implemented, hence you >> need to manually specify the channel on which the mesh is running >> (all >> nodes must be on the same channel and same meshid, just like regular >> AP operation). > > Not more like regular ad-hoc operation? Yes, it's more like ad-hoc, but I was just illustrating a point for those that are more familiar with hostap networks having several nodes. > Pardon my ignorance. I've followed your later wikipedia links and > many > others from there, but still haven't got much of an overview. I'm a > little familiar with how OLSR works, and got some meaty clues reading > about the OLPC XO-1 use of their subset of 11s, but that's it so far. Well, you can try google for more information. The links I emailed were accessible to almost everyone. If you have a PowerPoint file reader, you will find much more information related to 802.11s on the web. Regards, -- Rui Paulo --Apple-Mail-1-923992071 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkocWKAACgkQfD8M/ASTygKTxACfQHc2ThTcGrwXavjzKgHV82HX YxwAniIdIGJoTQFlucL0gMfi2dMM3mpe =LnSL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1-923992071--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?0B02BE09-36C5-4899-8DEC-1C78A269A04B>