Mesh networking

[Sam Leffler]

Nick Hibma wrote:
> Anyone interested in Mesh networking might want to have a look at
> 
>     http://meshcom.com/en/products/meshdriver/
> 
> We have started to use the mesh driver (ok, on voyage linux). A port
> should not be difficult, especially the userland daemon. It's
> dependencies on Linux syscalls are minimal.
> 
> Starting it through linux emulation does not work (in my FreeBSD setup).
> 
> Meshcom says they are happy to look at the port when it is done.

People have been doing L3 mesh for years.  It has it's limitations.  We
already have 802.11s support which is the right way to go.  The only
limitation right now is the lack of crypto (D4.0 should have something
usable but adding support will take a while).

	Sam