27 Jul
2014
27 Jul
'14
3:55 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Kris Kirby <kris(a)catonic.us> wrote:
Are we anywhere close to being able to support an
RF-based mesh network?
Or is it just simplest to have backhaul to a single tunnel device?
HamWAN (http://hamwan.org) is an OSPF mesh based network using 44net
with multiple Internet backhauls. Unfortunately the IPIP tunnel design
requires a single tunnel endpoint so within AMPR we have a single
point of failure, but at least the rest of the Internet benefits from
our multiple backhauls.
You are probably familiar with the HSMM-MESH system. That system uses
10.0.0.0/8 auto-configured addresses based on the MAC address of your
WRT54G router. 10.0.0.0/8 is obviously different than 44.0.0.0/8, but
I'm sure you know how to change the IP address your devices. Just keep
in mind the existing users have built a system based on private
address space, so you won't easily be able to peer with them. You'll
need to decide on an authoritative source for IP address allocations
first. In my opinion, they made a big mistake not utilizing 44net for
their address space.
Tom KD7LXL