[Commotion-dev] network profiles in Mesh Tether

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think the confusion over the "profiles" in the Mesh Tether app stems
from the vague term "profile" and lack of context.  These profiles are
network profiles, i.e. all of the settings needed to connect to an OLSR
mesh network.  Here's a quick example:

commotionwireless.net:
	SSID: commotionwireless.net
	BSSID: 02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be
	channel: 5
	DNS: 8.8.8.8 + plugin 127.0.0.1
	LinkQualityAlgorithm "etx_ffeth"
	IP root: 10.
	netmask: 255.0.0.0


funkfeuer:
	SSID: freiesnetz.www.funkfeuer.at die
	BSSID: 4E:FE:52:36:2E:65
	channel: 1
	DNS: 193.238.157.16
	LinkQualityAlgorithm "etx_ff"
	IP root: statically assigned, real IPs


And so on and so forth.  The idea is that each profile represents how to
connect to a mesh.  It is a quick and dirty version of the wifi browser
that must be manually configured.  Hopefully, this won't be the final
idea, but before we can do a proper scanner and browser, there is much
work to be done (IP address assignment techniques, SSIDs as mesh
descriptor, etc.).

.hc