Hi Luigi,<br><br>Although I can't speak for Commotion developers at OTI, I think it its likely they would not be able to support WDS modes very well at all. Besides the partially-functional modes that you have discovered.<br>
<br>WDS is generally a proprietary extension of 802.11, whereby the flavors of WDS developed by different manufacturers (e.g. Atheros, Broadcom) do not inter-operate, probably by design.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/clientmode#wds.-.wireless.distribution.system" target="_blank">http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/clientmode#wds.-.wireless.distribution.system</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/broadcomwds" target="_blank">http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/broadcomwds</a><br><a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds" target="_blank">http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds</a><br>
<br>Likewise, I think the sort of STA-AP links that WDS builds will not play well with either the captive portal or the firewall settings used in Commotion-OpenWRT.<br><br>So, the instance of Commotion you have working here likely would not mesh with any nodes running Commotion-OpenWRT firmware with canonical configuration.<br>
<br>For the mode of meshing that Commotion OpenWRT (and commmotion-mesh-applet under Ubuntu/Debian) depends on, the preferred approach to this topology is to have the nodes talk to each other over a dedicated ad-hoc VIF (virtual interface), and then have each node broadcast its public AP as an additional VIF. This approach avoids proprietary 802.11 extensions like WDS, to ensure compatibility with as many wifi clients as possible.<br>
<br>Have you tried flashing the Picostations with the Commotion-OpenWRT images available here (either stable PR3 or unstable DR1)? The Picostation M2 radios should run the "bullet" images fine, and it seems they should work for your 2-node mesh.<br>
<a href="https://commotionwireless.net/download">https://commotionwireless.net/download</a><br>
<br>Likewise, and to address your questions about Commotion under Ubuntu/Debian, here are recent builds of the commotion-mesh-applet GNOME applet, olsrd daemon, and NetworkManager agent:<br><a href="https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion">https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:43 AM, LuigiScop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luigi.scopelliti@fastwebnet.it" target="_blank">luigi.scopelliti@fastwebnet.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
I want to share more info about the test.<br>
I used to "commotion wifi" ESSID.<br>
The host PC (iPhone)was Wifi connected to the Client-WDS picostation.<br>
The Adsl modem was connected to the LAN port of POE of the second AP-WDS Picostation.<br>
The two picostations are installed on two balconies(50 m up from ground) of my building .One balcony looking North, the other one looking West.<br>
In this way I can distribute internet wirelessy over two areas that are located in orthogonal directions down to the street. The distance of the 2 picostations is about 15 m each other but the RF signal has to go through the walls of the apartment and the attenuation is significant.<br>
If I go with my iPhone on the street I can connect the iPhone to Internet at a distance of about 100 m from the base of building on one direction and 100 m on the other direction.I have created two internet hot spots with only 1 Internet access.<br>
The output power of the picostation has been set to 14 dBm because italian regulation.This is why the distance is not so significant.<br>
But the configuration is good for testing.<br>
Luigi<br>
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host PC-->Picostation(Client-WDS)-><u></u>Picostation(AP-WDS)->adsl modem<br>
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Wifi Access to internet from the client side works.<br>
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Luigi<br>
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