--- Nagarjuna wrote:
> Hi all, particularly those who attended the workshop
> on 31st March and
> 1st April, and last saturday Rony, Jtd resumed the
> work.
>
> Status:
>
> Last saturday we successfully managed to get the
> mesh working. Actually
> the mesh works out of the box like a charm. We only
> used several of our
> legacy skills and actually wasted lot of time. But
> at the end every
> moment spent was useful. We now know exactly what
> to communicate to
> others who wish to setup such a mesh (mess ;-)
> successfully.
>
> The dhcp on wireless was not working as of Saturday,
> but today afternoon
> I tried based on a reply from the olsr-users mailing
> list. Again it
> worked out of the box.
>
> What I did:
>
> installed a package called 'freifunk-dnsmasq',
> restarted it. Now we see
> an additional parameter on the web interface called
> OLSR-DHCP: This is
> where we give the DHCP share of the mesh network
> (not the lan network).
> thats it.
>
> Now we have a working mesh in the campus. I will
> write documentation
> here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh.
> Please add to everything
> I missed out. I will also upload few screen shots
> so that new teams
> setting it up will find it useful.
>
> Next step:
>
> Prepare a server (Rony contributed a server) and
> dump useful resources
> there for community use. Next time, gluggers can
> walk into our campus
> and sit in our lounge with a laptop and takeaway
> what the server has.
> If we get a list of goodies that the community needs
> we will begin
> archiving them. So send such a request to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] we
> will download them during the night time and leave
> it one the server.
>
Great news. Please link up these how-to-do-it pages in
the wsfii wiki also.
The resources idea is brilliant and a great boon.
Please see how soon we can make this work. Actually, I
think from what I heard in Dharamsala, it should be
possible for us to 'mesh' into the system remotely
wherever we are located, provided we run OLSR locally
and tune it to the same mesh. In that case,
downloading the resources will be just a hop or or two
away. Is this understanding correct?
> > From: Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Secondly, without the dnsmasq package, can we get
> the native udhcpd to work
> with the OLSR interface? I think we can.. What's the
> OLSR interface that
> shows up with ifconfig? It is possible, I think, to
> manually configure the
> DHCP server to listen on the OLSR interface.
>
> The problem, I think, wasn't with the missing
> package, but with the fact that
> we had DHCP running on the WLAN interface instead of
> the OLSR interface. The
> native DHCP should work perfectly fine if I'm
> right... unless dnsmasq has
> some features I don't know about..
Is it possible to 'test-bed' this on a non-wireless,
perhaps a standalone, device? Can we create ghost
nodes somehow? Anyhow, it hardly matters, since the
actual test-bed will be available at HBCSE for trials.
Vickram
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