[TriLUG] OT: solar wireless mesh router

[Tim Jowers]

Kevin,

   I'm with you. I have a good rooftop (HOA withstanding) with excellent
coverage of about 100 homes. I live off of Lake Pine in Kildaire Farm. Maybe
we can find enough people to justify a T1 somewhere and roll this out
legally. I guess the legal problems are what killed boingo although I never
followed them closely. What prototocol? 802.11n?

  On a Linux-specific note, has anyone setup Linux to share two networks? I
understand Linux supports failover to another network card but what I wanted
was load-balanced packets and for Linux to repond on the incoming network. I
tried this with Apache but could not get it to respond on the network from
which the packet came. It always responded on one network and - of course-
this is not what I wanted. More exactly:

       /----NIC1------- <-- please send/recv only on this network ---->
CPU
       \----NIC2------- <-- please send/recv only on this network ---->

    I guess we'd setup squid and allow any person who helps pay for the T1
and equipment to use the network. And encourage others to add their
POP/router to extend the network.

    I am toying with writing a distributed peer-based webserver module.
Sorta like bittorrent for the web. I've antipatented this idea on
shouldexist.org several years back and think it would be a great way to
ensure Internet control remains with the actual users rather than
centralized computing which is inherently bad both technically and civilly
IMO.

Thanks,
TimJowers


On 6/11/07, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
>
> http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/3950/meraki_introduces_first
> Thanks to Dave Pcolar for the link.
>
> Perhaps something like this can be a building block in a system that
> will give TWC, et al, a run for their money.
>
> -- Kevin
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