2011/11/3 Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>: > Just heard some discussion about two Mesh network projects... there may be > some relevant stuff: > <http://villagetelco.org/mesh-potato/> > and > <http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/flinders-news/2011/08/31/support-brings-network-less-mobiles-closer-to-reality/> > > With the Sugar environment, do all laptops connect to the access point or is > it a mesh where traffic is relayed or tunnelled through one connection, and > it is only the internet requests that go through the access point?
XOs can connect via ad-hoc or through an access point. Ad-hoc requires one XO to act as the hub for the others, but only scales to 5-10 XOs. An access point is needed beyond that. Once you get beyond 20-30 you should start thinking about implementing an XS School server, which runs an ejabberd instance to manage the XMPP (jabber) traffic. XO-1s had mesh capabilities in hardware, but this no longer applies in the XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Ad-hoc has taken its place. Sridhar -- "Our mission is to enhance learning opportunities for the 300,000 primary school aged children, living in remote Australia, by providing each one with a connected XO laptop as part of a sustainable training and support program, by 2014." http://www.laptop.org.au/ http://www.laptop.org.au/participate http://dev.laptop.org.au/participate -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
