[Commotion-discuss] Some pre-experimentation mesh hardware inquiries

[Christian Huldt]

Is it possible to configure olsrd on openwrt on something cheap like
TP-Link TL-MR3020 to join a commotion mesh?

Andrew Reynolds skrev 2013-02-27 12:59:
> Hello!
> 
> We tend to focus on Ubiquiti routers for convenience. We have a lot of
> them for our own networks because they're reliable and hard to brick.
> Commotion should theoretically run on any OpenWRT-compatible hardware
> (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start). The biggest problem we've run into
> is that some of the smaller routers don't have enough storage for all
> the Commotion packages. I believe there's a minimal Commotion
> configuration somewhere in the developer archives. I will see if I can
> find it.
> 
> The setup you describe sounds pretty straightforward. The routers should
> just mesh, and there are a couple of ways to add a laptop/fileserver.
> You could run the x86 live image, which will turn the laptop into a very
> powerful openwrt node, or you could connect the laptop and router via
> ethernet cable. Depending on your OS, this might be a good opportunity
> to test the new Linux or OS X clients. They're still very rough, but
> they might fit in a test network.
> 
> We are in the process of packaging and testing a new Commotion release,
> which will add a lot of user interface improvements, as well as some
> security features.
> 
> Finally, you can find all of our source code, including packages that
> haven't been added to the official release, on our github account
> (https://github.com/opentechinstitute).
> 
> Keep us posted on your progress.
> 
> -andrew
> 
> 
> On 02/27/2013 06:31 AM, Mikael Nordfeldth wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm involved in Umeå Hackerspace, northern Sweden, and we're thinking
>> (like so many others) that a wireless mesh network would be great to
>> have in our neighbourhood. I've been looking at both Commotion and the
>> Byzantium project (http://project-byzantium.org/) for inspiration,
>> technology and software.
>>
>> From what I can tell Commotion currently has OpenWRT builds for some of
>> the Ubiquiti hardware and from what I can tell from documentation this
>> is a working solution albeit somewhat hacky and developer-oriented. I
>> have a little bit of personal budget to kickstart this project and buy
>> hardware to experiment with. My first test scenario is to at least have
>> three APs/laptops working in a mesh to connect an apartment a couple of
>> blocks away from the source internet connection.
>>
>> Any experience-based suggestions on which hardware is best suited,
>> general tips for putting up a network like this etc. for someone who's
>> only used two OpenWRT boxes to "bridge" before?
>>
>> And a bonus inquiry: are there any efforts (or ideas on how much effort
>> it would mean) to put Commotion firmware onto common units like the
>> Linksys WRT54GL and such?
>>
> 
> 
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