[MLB-WIRELESS] What has happened to all of technical discussion

[Clae]

Thanks very much for that progress report Roger.  I was wondering how 
the work down on the routing farm was going.

Clae.

At 11:41 PM +1000 5/6/02, Roger Venning wrote:
>This is exactly what the Routing / Addressing working group is 
>planning. One of the issues is that the OSPF routers must run in 
>point-to-multipoint mode because if A can ping B and B can ping C 
>does not A can directly ping C... The issue with this is that I 
>haven't fully resolved the bugs in the free package, Zebra, in order 
>to get it working in point-to-multipoint (which was an unsupported 
>mode before I started.).
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>The end goal is that backbone nodes will have a single IP address 
>per WAN interface. This will run OSPF. It will be configured in 
>ad-hoc mode, on the same frequency, with the same ESSID as all other 
>backbone WAN interfaces (exceptions only in regions that have high 
>node density where interference and congestion becomes an issue, 
>only channel allocation gets past these). The OSPF daemon will run 
>in point to multipoint mode. The end result is that a node will not 
>need configuration especially for individual neighbours. Mesh 
>routing will occur.
>
>Roger.
>
>Steven Haigh wrote:
>
>>That's what's confised me too... what is there to stop us using ADHOC on
>>*all* nodes, and then using routing (OPSF or whatever) to figure out who is
>>connectable?
>>
>>I think this is probably the closest we could get to a mesh.....
>><snip>
>>
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