Hello All,
I have been watching the rise and fall of mesh networks over a decade. I
worked on community wireless in DC with Commotion Mesh. The OpenWRT mesh
stuff was moved to the ham bands under the name Amateur Radio Emergency
Data Network (AREDN). It has been under development for 8 years but still
doesn't work very well.
I took a closer look
<https://hackaday.io/project/187126-aredn-under-test/details> and found the
problem is OpenWRT CSMA-RTS/CTS. The TLDR is don't throw away your COTS
radio SW until you understand what it does. I spoke with Phil Kern, the
inventor of CSMA-RTS/CTS and he wasn't surprised by my results. If you
have some sudomesh nodes you can repeat my experiments to show that it
really is a problem.
Mesh is implemented on MikroTek using their proprietary radio. You could
do this FOSS but need a better MAC for a network foundation.
I'm happy to lend a hand where I can, but have a lot on my plate.
Regards,
Martin
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 2:20 PM Mo Balaa <buddybalaa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Interested. I’m not in the Bay Area anymore though.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 16:12 Ajay Tallam <sanaking(a)users.sf.net> wrote:
hi! I'm interested, I'm on the list, I
might not be in town 3/8 and I can
let you know if I can join virtually when we get closer to the day.
I imagine it would be good to checkin with Camber, jenny et al first as
well offline (i'm assuming they're all getting this email but to be safe if
you haven't heard, a call might be nice!..)
warm regards,
ajay
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