[Babel-users] Mesh Network

Outback Dingo outbackdingo at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 08:36:12 UTC 2015


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Sahana k.srinivas <sahana19793 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble setting up client to client communication in a
> wireless network.
> Consider I have three routers R1, R2, R3. Each of them are configured with
> an ad-hoc network and an access point respectively. The wireless interface
> is divided into two modes, one running ad-hoc mode (wlan0) and other access
> point (wlan0-1). The ssid of the of the ad-hoc network of all the routers
> is "mesh" (ip 192.168.1.x) and that of the access points is C0, C1, C2
> (192.168.2.x) of routers R1, R2, R3respectively. The router is running
> OLSRD on wireless interface (wlan0). So when a client, say laptop connects
> to the access point C0 of R1 and another laptop connects to C2 of R3, then
> can C0 and C2 communicate with each other at 2 hops? if so how?
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
>
In theory yes, if same subnet / routes are valid to the other node ip space
and depending on how you have the wireless clients access configured., and
of course firewall rules
if wireless is not congiured on the nodes to allow a neighbors clients to
communicate they will not be able to.



> Regards,
> Sahana
>
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