[Commotion-announce] Creating an Ad Hoc WiFi MESH Network

[Josh King]

Hi Sritam,

Commotion currently exists primarily as a firmware distribution for routers, and cannot be installed
on laptops. The project is currently on hiatus while I complete a rewrite of many of its core
components. Some of these components could potentially be used for an implementation that would
allow mesh networking between laptops, but that's currently not one of my short term goals.

You probably want to look into manually setting up mesh routing and addressing between your laptops.
If they have compatible wifi cards and run Linux, your best bet may be using either batman-adv or
802.11s, as they have native support built into the Linux wireless stack. I have not followed it
myself, but here is a tutorial from the open80211s project on setting up an 802.11s mesh between
supported devices:

https://github.com/o11s/open80211s/wiki/HOWTO

Good luck!

On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 09:22 +0000, Paltasingh, S. wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I want to connect 5 laptops in a closed room in an Ad Hoc fashion by creating a MESH network in
> between them.
> 
> I do not want to connect the laptops in an infrastructure mode. I want to create a MESH network in
> which the laptops are the nodes (routers) of the network. 
> 
> The laptops will use their WiFi interface to create/connect and communicate in the network without
> depending on any pre-existing infrastructure like the router, internet.
> 
> In the formed Ad Hoc MESH network the laptops should be able to communicate/share data among each
> other.
> Can this be achieved using the commotion software platform.
> 
> If Yes, then please help me on how to do it using the commotion software platform on my laptops.
> 
> Looking forward to your help.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Sritam Paltasingh.
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