All very well guys - but go back one stage
What are you going to connect it too?
I want to put them in a South African township of 1 million people, so
the school kids can use them.. but there is no internet connection.
And if thats in a township.. what chance do you stand in rural areas?
The mesh has to link into something.
So yes, technically interesting.. but?
Richard
On 6 Sep 2006, at 20:10, Krishna Sankar ((ksankar)) wrote:
Interesting question. Actually I was also thinking about the same issue
! From my (limited) view :
a) There will be py level interfaces - dials, gages, switches
and control knobs and a coherent programming model. We do need APIs at
that layer.
b) But the majority of the work would be done at the L1/2/3.
c) The mesh (802.11s) will be implemented as a Layer1/L2
artifact
d) The mesh mobility networking primitives would be more of
OLSR/AODV/DYMO (more of DYMO/OLSR than AODV) than normal OSPF. Could be
OSPF v3 with mobility as well.
e) We also would need to work with D-Bus, the Avahi
layer(mDNS, local network forming et al) as well as the twisted
framework (if that is part of the distribution)
f) And we should not forget IPv6 !
Cheers
<k/>
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Subject: [OLPC Networking] Mesh network?
Has there been a clear plan on how to achieve the mesh network?
Will it be some python script/framework that acts like a router,
maintaing a routing table and OSPF of available nodes? Or is even that
too high-level, and the mesh capabilities will be done at some lower
layer?
I am generally interested in how it will be implemented, either
from scratch or from existing technology.
Michael Burns
Network Engineering
Oregon State University
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