when last we saw our hero (Monday, Sep 06, 2004), stuart was madly tapping out: > I am doing some research on structured Mesh networks using Soekris > mother boards and Mesh Dynamics software. www.meshdynamics.com I > have done some testing with the Locustworlds open source meshing > software, but have found that as the number of hops increases, the > performance decreases substantially. From what I understand it is > do to the single radio AP repeater architecture. A Structured Mesh > uses dual and tri-band AP's to utilize different frequencies for the > backhaul and client communications and thus performs better as hops > are added, at lest that's what they claim. > > Has anyone out there built any mesh networks that might have any > input or might be interested in helping me test the Mesh Dynamics > system? Jay, Brad you just deployed the Tropos system in Chaska, do > you have any thoughts? > stuart- just to follow up on this a bit. you're right about the single vs. multiple radio benefits from a performance perspective. i haven't played with the meshdynamics stuff, but i have played with the locustworld stuff on my own with a couple of nodes just to monkey with AODV implemention. in poking at the meshdynamics stuff, it's not really clear what they're doing from a control plane perspective. it looks to be some sort of enhanced BCP, but in glossing over their stuff briefly i wasn't certain. they make references to what they call "network switch stacks" in their documentation, which to me is just marketingdorkese for access, agg & core. i haven't had time to play with the creation of p-t-p backbone links running a real L3 routing protocol (read: OSPF) over them which requires multi-radio platforms to provide the BB and access links that are required. perhaps now that the house remodelling is coming to a conclusion i'll be able to find some time for that. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list