wifidog + olsr WAS Re: [isf-wifidog] fon is having pretty...

[Michael Lenczner]

joe - other people are putting those together as well.

http://www.puteaux-wireless.org/ - there are 3-4 posts on this.  in french
(they mention that they learned smthing about it from their friends at
london wireless :-)

and

http://www.marseille-wireless.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=48 - french



On 2/6/06, Ian White <ian.white at datamile-computers.com> wrote:
> Anything that can mesh well, and have a central server will be
> excellent.
>
> I've been running a locustworld meshap community mesh for a few years,
> and anything that'll run on a wrt instead would be much better.
>
> I've had wifidog on one firmware, but now I'm trying dd-wrt for its
> tools, but its comes with nocat etc.
>
> The php 5/postgres is an issue for us php4/mysql general hosters, but
> I'm not going to start that one again
>
> Ian
>
> >
> > All this talk is really interesting that I decided to talk about what
> > I'm working on.
> >
> > At BC Wireless, we have a lot of different projects.  The main thing
> > that I've been working on was creating a firmware that has WiFiDog
> built
> > in as well as OLSR for Mesh Networking.  The firmware has a modified
> > WebIF, and right now is a general purpose firmware for BC Wireless.
> >
> > The firmware can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.infil00p.org/openwrt/snapshots/
> >
> > <disclaimer>
> > Obligitory Disclaimer: This firmware is provided AS IS and has no
> > guarantee of actual functionality.  You are using it at your own
> risk,
> > and you will void your warantee on your router.  I do not take any
> > responsiblity for you damaging your router, and you acknowledge that
> you
> > are installing this at your own risk.
> > </disclaimer>
> >
> > It's a modified version of OpenWRT WhiteRussian RC4.  Right now it
> has
> > most of our auto-config for BC Wireless added on, as well as most of
> the
> > scripting that's required to fix the way that OpenWRT handles
> breaking
> > up the bridge to have the WiFi card and the LAN seperate.  I haven't
> > added any OLSR components onto the UI yet, and I am still fixing the
> bug
> > with the Firewall Scrpts.
> >
> > To Do:
> > - Add OLSR config scripts
> > - Update WiFiDog Auto-Configuration Script to also configure OpenVPN
> for
> > hotspots
> > - Add the ability to turn on and off services from a web menu
> > - Add a FirstBoot wizard for novices that does initial setup
> >
> > I was interested in setting something up for the WGT634U, however I
> > heard that the device overheats so much that this would be
> impractical.
> > To be honest, we need to find an open alternative to all these
> > off-the-shelf items so that we can run RoofNet, ADOV and other types
> of
> > mesh as well as OLSR.
> >
> > However, as for the practicality of WiFiDog, there really has to be
> an
> > IM system built in so that users who login to a hotspot can talk to
> one
> > another.  For example, the test node that I run out of my house using
> > our Dev server has 14 users.  I've only met two of these users.
> While
> > it's cool that I've only met two of my neighbours, I would like to
> have
> > the ability to say hi to them without having to go through the
> database
> > and grab their e-mail addresses. :(
> >
> > That's just my 0.02 cents
> >
> > --
> > Joe Bowser <bowserj at unbc.ca>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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