[Babel-users] a new way to mesh in openwrt

[Donald Eastlake]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 6:53 PM Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:
> > Ad-hoc mode is dead?
>
> It never worked well beyond a few nodes, since it requires global
> synchronisation (of beacons?  I forget) across the whole mesh.  I could be
> wrong, but I believe tha 802.11s doesn't have that flaw.

I think the main problem with ad-hoc mode is that all the stations
need to be able to see each other's transmissions. 802.11s is
multi-hop and does not have that problem. Ad-hoc mode was just for
something like a modest number of people with laptops sitting around a
table or the like.

Thanks,
Donald
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> -- Juliusz