On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Kris Kirby kris@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