Some quick comments before I get lost in the details. First : Cool!
Some general ideas/thoughts/ramblings:
- Check out the AODV (adhoc On Demand Vector) routing protocol from the IETF MANET (Mobile Adhoc NETwork) working group. It's a standards-track protocol and at the moment seems to be the most successful mesh routing protocol , for example, it has been implemented in various places, and does work.
- irritatingly (iMO) the MANET group isn't much interested in fixed mesh applications. Perhaps that will change in the future. I'm not sure there's a practical/technical difference, but it's worth keeping in mind
- check out the work of the multi6 working group of the IETF. They are working on practical (i.e., near-term) technology to allow multihoming at the host level (they call it site, but a site includes a single host in their definitions). This will be useful I think if you are going to have multiple gateways to the public internet on the CWN mesh.
- plan for IPv6 ;-) there should be some cool synergy between IPv6 new technologies like better multihoming, and more address space. Please bring me into the loop if you're talking to the IETF, I've been trying in a limited way to promote CWN applications to them.
- is it possible to have an unmanaged mesh / distributed management? In particular if multihoming the mesh is possible with a distributed management scheme, that would be very cool.
Now I'll go and read your documents =)
simon
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 09:08 AM, Mario Giammarco wrote:
Hello, I am developing a GPL routing software for wireless networks.
If you are interested look at scrouter.sourceforge.net.
It is almost finished, but I need some feedback or (better) some help.
Thank you for the interest.
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