[olug] Omaha area 802.11 wireless community network?

[Brian Roberson]

>     The routing aspect of is the part I'm trying to understand (and the
> array of possible hardware configurations). It's been suggested to me
> that the hardware should do spanning tree, which is or is not included
> within how ospf works? I found that hardware configurations range from
> between $100 (do-it-yourself) to $700.

spanning tree = layer2 protocol ( you need this to do bridging )
ospf = layer3 ip routing protocol



>
>     Issue number one is cost, it's "Free Like Speech Not Beer". The
> second is security; from proxy web surfing to full-ip services. The
> third is routing. And lastly there's uplink, does one node on the
> network provide connectivity to the Big-I, or is it shared amongst
> nodes, if so how?

the possibilities are really unlimited, i saw more of an open, shortest path
first scenario ( e.g. 2 hops to a cable modem is better than say 4 hops to a
dsl user ) in any case, engineering would need to be done by all parties
willing to allow an internet connection from there premisis.

>
>     But these don't have to be worked out all at once, like the Big-I
> back from it was the Big-I --- first there's one node.

yep!




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