On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote: > Hi, > > There was discussion of this at the SF sprint. > > As I understand it, openWRT (from the Shuttleworth project) can be installed > on > a TP-Link router. It can be configured to serve connected XOs (such as in a > classroom) > on a mesh. It could also serve as a gateway to the school server's LAN. > > If this could work, then the schoolserver would not provide DHCP (since the > mesh potato routers would > have fixed addresses on the schoolserver LAN) and would not provide ejabberd > (since that function is > served by the classroom-level mesh). > > Presumably each classroom mesh would be a subnet of the LAN so that openWRT > would act as a gateway > for messages directed at the schoolserver. > > Is my understanding in the ballpark?
I'm not sure why you would use a mesh in a classroom if it was connected to a LAN like this. If you were planning a single AP/router per classroom and you have a school server (likely even if you didn't have a SS) you'd be better of running the AP/router in AP mode then as a mesh as it offers much better performance and management, I'm not sure what a mesh would offer in this configurations. Peter _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
