[mesh-dev] Multicast forwarding for layer 3 pseudo-bridges

[Mitar]

Hi!

> The trade-off is that only devices with atheros chipsets would be able to
> connect to the mesh. This, to me, is not a good trade-off.

This is a good question. Because sometimes having other chipsets in the
ad-hoc network could influence the network to behave worse. Is it really
so problematic to require Atheros chipset? You would need ath5k/9k
drivers anyway so that you can have both ad-hoc+multiple SSIDs at the
same time. Do you know of other wireless chipsets which allow that with
open source drivers? (I do not, but I am really asking. Because this is
for me one reason why I think going only Atheros might be OK. Because
even other solutions you cannot do.)

> If we get to a point where our routing tables or babeld traffic is getting
> to be too much then that is a good day and we'll have a large mesh with
> enough resources to throw at this problem.

Exactly! :-) First you need a network, to have a problems with the
network. :-)


Mitar

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