Il mar, 2003-06-10 alle 04:51, S Woodside ha scritto: > Hi Mario, > > Some quick comments before I get lost in the details. First : Cool! >
Thanks! ;-) > 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. Yes, but... it uses flooding to find a route, it will never scale. > - irritatingly (iMO) the MANET group isn't much interested in fixed > mesh applications. Perhaps that will change in the future. Fortunately there are other people like me interested in fixed meshes... > I'm not sure > there's a practical/technical difference, but it's worth keeping in mind You can optimize better if host do not move. > - 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). I will do, I need some new info on multihoming. > This will be useful I think if you are going to > have multiple gateways to the public internet on the CWN mesh. Yes I have not implemented this thing. > - plan for IPv6 ;-) there should be some cool synergy between IPv6 new > technologies like better multihoming, and more address space. And geographic addressing. > 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. I do not dare for now to call 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. > Yes my algorithm does not need configuration. You put your coordinates and go! > Now I'll go and read your documents =) > Yes thank you for interest!!!!! -- Mario Giammarco Via Calamandrei,5-48022 Lugo (RA) ITALY tel: +39054522965 cell: +39(0)3284146845 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
