[Freedombox-discuss] We do need mesh networking

[Luca Dionisi]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Jonathan Roberts
<jonrob.one at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On this topic...
>
> from what I've seen of previous discussions, some people are very
> knowledgeable about mesh networking so this may not be of
> news/interest, but I'm pretty sure the OLPCs have mesh capabilities.
> They might be good people to talk to about protocols/techniques, and
> their software for it is almost certainly open source.

Their mesh capabilities are those of standard 802.11s. They use AODV.
For what I know they should have a big limitation in the number of
nodes they can scale up to.
As well as other open issues (the protocol being reactive, the IP has
to be chosen by the user and has to be unique, etc)

Not very reliable for a big mesh.

--Luca