21 May
2014
21 May
'14
2:29 a.m.
Hi al,
2014-05-20 21:16 GMT-03:00 al <al(a)blogmail.cc>cc>:
We have a project in Brazil to use Mesh Networks in demonstrations and
protests to provide a Wireless LAN and Internet to the crowds. There
are people in the crowd with routers using mesh networks extending the
reach of regular Internet connections that people open up at home. The
LAN can be used for quick and free communication that does not depend
on 3G or another solution. The routers that are close to Internet
connections are always seeking for new connections. Due to the fact
that the crowd is always walking, we can't connect the nodes to
ethernet.
Currently we use OpenWRT+OLSR and a complicated configuration, I'd
like to replace that with a better and easier to use solution. I have
no problem using the command line to connect, but we want more people
to adopt this, and that way they'd need to do it with a simpler
interface. That's why I thought about using libre-mesh as a base
system.
So ethernet is shared by default, but how would I configure another
source for sharing? (a 3g/4g modem, another wireless adapter, or even
the same wifi acting as mesh+AP)
Ramiro
De:
"Ramiro Polla" <ramiro.polla(a)gmail.com>
Para: dev(a)lists.libre-mesh.org
Enviados: Miércoles, 21 de Mayo 2014 0:33:14
Asunto: [lime-dev] I have installed the firmware. Now what? =)
I have compiled the firmware using lime-build for tl-mr3020, and then
installed the firmware on two routers. The mesh works, they can see
each other and I can connect to them as Access Points. Now I have two
questions:
1. How do I connect a router to the Internet?
2. How do I share this connection with the mesh?
For (1), I tried scanning for wifi networks but I got an error that
libiwinfo-lua was missing. I connected to a network through ssh using
wpa_supplicant and installed libiwinfo-lua, so now I can properly
connect from the web interface. It seems libiwinfo-lua should be
installed by default, shouldn't it?
For (2), I'm not quite sure how to proceed.
Ramiro
Hello, Ramiro, wellcome to Libre-mesh.
Normally we connect router to internet (or to other network) through ethernet. Libre-mesh
works in that way to default and share this connection by default. Can not do it in that
way? I understand that you are trying to use WiFi interface to mesh + AP + client. Is it?
I think you can success, but is strange for me.
About libiwinfo-lua I don't know if is necessary by default. We make scan with
"iw mesh0 scan", but we don't need it normally, and we don't want to
offer options that are going to complicate understanding of Libre-mesh (we are going to
delete options). We don't design Libre-mesh to act as a client, of course you can do
it. And we like to hear your needs. Why don't use ethernet?