Cisco AP and linux

Nope. However, you have something better in the AP1310. Cisco runs on IOS. If you want features and functions, Cisco IOS is way more "powerful" than any of the Linux based wireless routers.

Jeff Liebermann ha scritto:

Well,you're probably right... however since I have a couple of those toys I was wondering if I could do something like MIT's roofnet. I've just discovered this amazing project and since there are several linux implementation of this kind of routing protocols I was planning of reusing this cisco's hardware to build a mesh network.

Jeff Liebermann ha scritto:

Well,you're probably right... however since I have a couple of those toys I was wondering if I could do something like MIT's roofnet. I've just discovered this amazing project and since there are several linux implementation of this kind of routing protocols I was planning of reusing this cisco's hardware to build a mesh network.

"Hamvil" hath wroth:

I'm always right. Well, maybe usually right.

Dunno. Probably not because they use custom firmware. They seem to prefer Netgear WGT634u.

don't think your Cisco boxes will work with RoofNet (not sure).

I have a bad attitude about mesh networks, but they're the current fashion rage in wireless. Far be it for me to suggest that they have problems.

Some reading on Mesh from my bookmark pile:

(links and papers) (2 or more radios is the right way to do mesh)

Jeff Liebermann ha scritto:

Yep, I know. I have one of those myself. However you can use every kind of hardware, they just require a Linux OS.

Well I wasn't looking for something that would works just put-of-the-box. I was ready to spend some time on it, but I need at least a minimal linux distribution that can boot on that hardware.

Well I'm still at the university so I have some time to spend on the topic. Thanks for the links I didn't know about belair. Unluckly they do not have anything open source. I was planning to write a tool for managing such kind of networks like the one that they show in their flyers.

"Hamvil" hath wroth:

There are quite a few companies and groups doing mesh networks. Only a few offer more than one radio to avoid the store and forward lag and bandwidth reduction effects. Management tools are nice, but that's not where the problems hide. I suggest you look into the adaptive routing algorithms, route self-optimization, bandwidth optimization, interference tolerance/avoidance, abuse mitigation, auto configuration, and self-healing networks. Once these are working, mesh networks could run themselves and require only monitoring (fault detection), not management (manual tweaking).

Mesh network vendors: BelAir Networks Inc Cisco Systems Inc PacketHop Inc. Proxim Corporation Rajant Corporation RoamAD SkyPilot Networks Inc Strix Systems Inc Tropos Networks Inc Firetide Hopling Technologies BV MeshDynamics Motorola Inc (Motomesh) Nortel Networks

Best of luck.

Oh... you might wanna see what Cisco has to offer in the way of mesh networks:

possibly trade the hardware.