I changed the message subject to reflect this topic. I too am attempting to design a free community network. The internet feed will come from a local university. The backbone hardware is Soekris 4521. There will be 1, 2, and 3 radio nodes.
I have the Wisp-Dist node that connects to the wired world working well, with dhcp, NAT and nocat gateway. I am at the point of trying to branch out from the wired node into a wireless network. You seem ahead of me in design and are obviously more knowledgable. I am hoping for some pointers that will save me from a lot of experimenting. What type of routing are you using? I am hoping to use dynamic routing to make it easier for new nodes to join in. My current plan is to test zebra/ospf and/or rip routing on a bench by connecting the ethernet ports (using crossover cables) of several 4521s together. If I can dynamically route a chain of ethernet ports, I should be able to substitute radios for ethernet ports in the resulting config. Have you already been down this road? If so, I will throw some config questions at you. If not, are you interested in what I come up with? Ray On 8 Mar 2004 at 16:38, abel wrote: > > By chance, are you attempting to use two radios to drive two 120 or 180 > > degree > sector > > antennas, and the third radio for backhaul? It you are, I would like to > compare setups. > > Not exactly. > I attached a 30 deg yagui to each i/f. > I am trying to setup a node to build the 'backbone' of our community network > 'freebaires' (the buenos Aires free wireless network). Anyway we can compare > setups. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > leaf-wisp-dist mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-wisp-dist ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-wisp-dist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-wisp-dist
