19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
7 p.m.
On 14/03/17 10:04, Gio wrote:
On Tuesday 14 March 2017 02:25:02 Pau wrote:
Yeah, will we great if qMp move to 802.11s together. Pau, you answered
me in qMp mailing list[1], so I understand that we can find the best
moment to change together.
From long time ago LibreMesh supports 802.11s as
link layer protocol for
the WiFi/mesh connections (with deactivated HWMP, the routing layer).
Traditionally we have been using Ad-Hoc (IBSS) for linking the nodes but
it is old and broken on most of the current WiFi drivers.
802.11s has some advantages like:
* easy setup (just mode=mesh)
* several 802.11s virtual devices supported in a single WiFi interface
* supports encryption
* it has power saving support, so better for mobile devices
* better and more driver support
So as already discussed on some other mailing thread, I propose to use
it by default instead of IBSS on the next LibreMesh release.
Of course it will break the compatibility with older releases. But IMHO
it is better now than in the future, in any case we will probably have
to do it soon or later. In addition anyone who want can use IBSS
instead, can use Chef or lime-build to generate an image firmware. It is
as easy as adding "list proto adhoc" into /etc/config/lime-defaults.
Please, speak up. Silent will be considered acceptance :)
Some LimeCat ago ( there was at least Pau, Gui, me, Ilario, Al and some more i
don't remember ) we agreed on switching to 802.11s instead of adhoc for next
release, so IMHO we just need to test it a lot before releasing and we are
done with this, moreover i would like to ear from qmp people because if we
switch together we could keep interoperating and this would be a plus
Cheers!
[1] https://mail.dabax.net/pipermail/qmp-users/2017-March/000999.html