Re: [WISPA] OVPN Question

2011-03-14 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
did you double check that you use tap devices (as opposed to tun) (by ovpn, I assume you mean OpenVPN?) Setting up OpenVPN was easy for me with this fine manual: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:59 PM, Scott Reed wrote: I am missing

Re: [WISPA] Working! WiFi AAA with free ad supported and paid access on one device

2011-02-28 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
(...) Delivered 233,625 ad views over 30 days. http://www.aircloud.com/services/free-wifi/wifi-advertising The next piece is to implement ad-injection while browsing. Waiting on SilverLining for that. Can you explain a little bit more in detail how you do the ad injection while

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: I appreciate advice in many cases, but for this one, I have only heard one answer to the question... That is: Is RIP stable? That person that answered said Yes. Sure, if you want to have stable routing loops :)) PGP.sig

Re: [WISPA] Mesh

2010-08-10 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Ralph wrote: I have one or two Ruckus CPEs (the ones that look like Pacman) I intend to try on one of our 4 muni mesh systems, but as of yet have not had a chance. We use a lot of the Pepwave/Peplinks though. Out of curiosity - what mesh algorithm does

Re: [WISPA] Mesh

2010-08-10 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Ralph wrote: Never asked because we don’t use them for making the mesh. We use only Tropos, although 3 systems we did for another company required Cisco product. I will never deploy Cisco mess(h) again-LOL. The Peps are the CPEs we use. In a muni mesh, the CPE

Re: [WISPA] Mesh

2010-08-09 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:46 PM, RickG wrote: What type of radios does this run on? any since it is a layer 3 mesh routing software - heck you could even run it over avian carriers ;-) a. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:36 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan aa...@lo-res.org wrote: you could of course still use

Re: [WISPA] Mesh

2010-08-03 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
you could of course still use open source: OLSR.org Deployed on multiple very large community wireless networks worldwide. (Freifunk, Funkfeuer, Athens Metropolitan Wireless network (5k nodes), Guifi.net etc) On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Butch has done Mikrotik ones, but

Re: [WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-18 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
interested in how you managed to do that. Of course, your mileage or your needs might differ. Best regards, L. Aaron Kaplan (http://olsr.org, http://www.funkfeuer.at) WISPA Wants You! Join today! http

Re: [WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-18 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
Hi! Typically most folks think of a deployment as one (Mesh... turn on, let it self connect / self configure etc) or the other .. Engineered Link Engineered Routing Protocol Are you sure this is what you are needing ? You can very easily do a hybrid approach.. where you have

Re: [WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-18 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
By the way - I forgot to say that OLSR.org does run on Mikrotik (with some minor tricks on getting a pkg installed ;-) Are you sure this is what you are needing ? You can very easily do a hybrid approach.. where you have an Engineered Back Bone Links (these could be fully meshed,

Re: [WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-18 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
path selection protocol. (of course, we also actively develop and work on the olsr.org so we might one day end up with a multipath routing meshing daemon. this would be my dream) a. Greg On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:41 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: I agree with Faisal here... Our experience

Re: [WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-18 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: Hi Aaron, Any one installed OSLR on Ubiquiti M Series ? Any info / instructions on that ? I will check that - but we for sure installed it on other AirOS systems. In general (this is one of the big advantage of OLSR being on layer 3) ,

Re: [WISPA] Searchable Map of Stimulus projects

2009-09-15 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steve Barnes wrote: Digital Bridge has asked for money for Underserved for the county that I service, the whole county. Questions: 1. Since I am the only WISP in the Rural areas of my county and my standard is 1024/256 with 2.4 and there is 50% of the

Re: [WISPA] Searchable Map of Stimulus projects

2009-09-15 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Sep 15, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Brian Whigham wrote: Just a quit though - correct me if I am wrong, but... Isnt blocking competition very un-American somehow? Is blocking even possible? Seriously? You would categorize government-subsidized broadband expansion as capitalistic

Re: [WISPA] Searchable Map of Stimulus projects

2009-09-15 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
Seriously? You would categorize government-subsidized broadband expansion as capitalistic competition? I should have said - receiving some funds and thus increasing the speed of biz expansion. I see nothing un-capitalistic per se about receiving funds in order to revive the economy.

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Mesh Network

2009-06-19 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
As far as I am informed, the Athens wireless folks use a custom built OLSR package for Microtik. I think I could put that onto the www.olsr.org page FYI: OLSR.org is proven to scale to at least 1000 nodes. We currently estimate a few thousand nodes is possible with linksys 200MHz

Re: [WISPA] Nanostation support, tips, etc.

2009-01-27 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:15 PM, os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone using the NS2 or NS5 where the AP's are a mesh network, or is everyone using AP's with backhauls? I want to try a mesh network with the NS2. It looks like the firmware options are open-mesh or something proprietary such as