I ran across this over at www.generation5.org. It is software that will enable a computer with a wi-fi to become a cell in a mesh network.
The URL is below the description. Try downloading. I have not got mine set up yet, so no first hand experience. But it sounds interesting. Mesh-AP cdrom version 05 New this week Description: Version 5 of the mesh-AP is a bootable CD which is designed for either SBC systems like the "seahorse" and "starfish" but will work in many laptops and desktop systems. Simply boot the CD and place a wi-fi card in the machine. Driver support for multiple ethernet cards and multiple wi-fi cards. The system contains multiple protocols, assigning dhcp addresses to standard wifi clients at each "cell" cells communicate via mesh routing and form a robust self organising, compressed and encrypted network. There is a DNS proxy and HTTP proxy on each cell and IP is also gatewayed using NAT. See the enclosed word document on the CD for more information. This is a testing release, not suitable for production use, feedback is welcomed and development is ongoing. Requires 64mb of ram, zero harddisk space required. (UPDATED: Several fixes + full gateway discovery and repair) http://www.locustworld.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=6 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
