[Commotion-discuss] Fwd: New wireless router from EFF designed for partitioned sharing

[Dan Staples]

Although CeroWRT contains Babel, the Open Wireless firmware from EFF
does not do mesh networking. It's still a great project though...not
everything needs to mesh :)

Dan

On 07/22/2014 09:46 AM, danielneis . wrote:
>   * Babel mesh routing protocol (source specific routing release).
> 
> from: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt
> 
> 
> it seems to be a very promising project based on openwrt distribution
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Anderson Walworth
> <anderson at alliedmedia.org <mailto:anderson at alliedmedia.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Sounds good except HACKERS BUILT IT!!!.... Just Kidding ; )
> 
>     I couldn't tell from their site if these routers mesh with each
>     other or not.
> 
>     Anderson
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Dan Staples
>     <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
>     <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
> 
>         It's a cool project. I had a chat with their lead developer a
>         few months
>         ago, to see if there were any areas of possible collaboration.
>         Unfortunately there's not a lot of overlap between the goals of Open
>         Wireless and Commotion. However, some similarities include
>         security and
>         an interest in Quality of Service controls so folks can share only a
>         portion of their bandwidth with the network.
> 
>         I'd love to flash it on a router and try it out.
> 
>         Dan
> 
>         On 07/21/2014 09:54 AM, Andy Gunn wrote:
>         > From another list - thoughts on this router firmware?
>         >
>         >
>         > -------- Original Message --------
>         > Subject:      New wireless router from EFF designed for
>         partitioned sharing
>         > Date:         Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:17:10 -0700
>         > From:         Greg Bloom
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router
>         >
>         > This seems like it might be a preferable alternative to
>         previous wifi
>         > technologies used in the Bridge, for a few reasons -- looks
>         like it
>         > could be easy to set up and manage private/public division in your
>         > network, in a way that is actually in compliance with
>         regulation in the
>         > US.
>         >
>         > ~greg
>         >
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