> -----Original Message----- > > We have a few grad students who are doing their PHD projects > and require some 801.11 Access Points which can do mesh.
Aha, since they're grad students, they have 1. No Money 2. Time 3. Willingness to make it work They should try some of the opensource stuff around. Examples (in no particular order): http://www.cuwin.net/about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/02/10/free-mesh-networking-wit h-metrix-pebble.html > We are a bit concerned that this will interfere with our > campus 802.11 deployment (their lab is near a very busy > student hangout), and as such are hoping to help them find an > AP that will allow some configurable options, most > specifically transmit power and channel selection. You can suggest faraday cages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage (Some grad students project that mentions using and old university freezer as a faraday cage, then later a large steel cabinet) http://scissec.scis.ecu.edu.au/wordpress/conference_proceedings/2005/for ensics/yek2.pdf > So far they found a product from > meraki which does mesh, but has frew configurable options. > I think meraki is a commercial venture of MIT's roofnet ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
