Re: [Madwifi-devel] Small town mesh: ad-hoc versos ahdemo

[I. G. P. <ig...@gm...>]

If someone what's to have a look to what the 20 node outdoor network look
slike, you have a topology graph here:

http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=netgraphphpzl4.png

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Derek Smithies <de...@in...>wrote:

> hi,
>  AH demo will suffice.
>
> A working network is better than one which does not work.
> You have shown that adhoc fails for you. So, you have "nothing deployable".
> It would appear the answer is to ahdemo...
>
>
> From the wiki:
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/AhdemoInterface
>
>
> With ahdemo, you bypass the beacon handling code in madwifi - which has
> been problematic in the past.
>
> With ahdemo, You lose nothing on security. Anyone can send packets with a
> bssid of zero and join your network. With IBSS/adhoc, they can send on
> the selected BSSID and join your network.
>  with IBSS/adhoc, they will see your beacons, and probe your network.
>
> I have used ahdemo - the throughput performance was poor. Not sure why..
>
>
> Derek.
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Ignacio García Pérez wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> In a ~20 node small town mesh I've been lately dealing with any
>> combination
>> of the following: stuck beacon, ramping ping and IBSS split, and though
>> thanks to much testing and invaluable patches from several people here,
>> I've
>> become to ultimately ask myself if ad-hoc is actually needed and ahdemo
>> would suffice:
>>
>> - All nodes are known and use atheros hardware.
>> - All nodes are static.
>> - No other devices participate in the network.
>>
>> All advice will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thankx.
>>
>>
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