Mesh Quest

[Andrey Yurovsky]

iwconfig doesn't know about mesh (and doesn't really need to).

http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO
has the latest list of supported features and tutorials that you may
wish to refer to.

2009/2/13 Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>:
> Hi Javier,
>
> Thanks for your helpful explanations. I'll go through these in detail, but
> wanted to ask one quick further clarification.
>
> When I do iwconfig, the displayed results for my mesh0 interface have a
> "Mode:" attribute displayed as "Auto". Is that correct? Or is that "Mode:"
> supposed to be "Mesh"?
>
> If I try "iwconfig mesh0 mode mesh" it gives me an error, with invalid
> argument for mesh. (If I do "iwconfig mesh0 mode ad-hoc" it will change the
> mode to "Ad-Hoc".)
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Javier Cardona <javier at cozybit.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Thanks for your e-mail.  Comments in line...
>>
>> > CONFIGURATION
>> >
>> > What level of functionality is expected to work in the present code
>> > base?
>>
>> http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/RELEASE_NOTES-0.2.1
>> http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/RELEASE_NOTES-0.2.0
>> + mesh portal functionality (bridging two networks over a mesh)
>>
>> > The mesh comes up with a default of Channel 1. Do I need to set my wlan0
>> > to
>> > Channel 1 as well?
>>
>> The driver only supports mode of operation at a time (see
>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/modes) at a time.
>> In other words, if you have mesh up, you should bring wlan0 down.
>>
>> > What mode should mesh0 be in? Ad-hoc?
>>
>> Mesh.
>
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Andrey Yurovsky
cozybit Inc.