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John,<br>
<br>
There is very little simple How-To instructions available on setting up
a Freifunk mesh network of routers. I don't have the time to write
full blown instructions, but here is what I have found. (Sorry to all
the OLSR developers on this email list, but guys like John are
generally ignored). There is lots of tech info at the Freifunk site.<br>
<br>
-Freifunk works great, it has the latest stable OLSR built in and has
some of the developers for OLSR working on it<br>
-It has almost no security built in except a login for admin<br>
-Choose any router for the WAN (Internet) connection and that router
will automatically act as the gateway<br>
-It works as an ad-hoc network, not an access point. You set up routers
with Freifunk, and you can connect computers to any router with a wire
(Not wirelessly) to get Internet traffic.<br>
-You can have a node do both meshing and access point, but the
performance is not so good.<br>
<br>
Quick Freifunk Setup<br>
In the web setup:<br>
I use a Buffalo router with the LAN split from the wirless, this
happens automatically, should happen with the Linksys.<br>
Your basically setting three areas on the Freifunk, LAN WAN, WIRELESS<br>
<br>
1 Flash with the stable version <br>
2 Do not add or change anything on the OLSR page, or the System Page<br>
3 On the WAN page, set WAN to DHCP. It's easiest to connect the WAN
port to an Internet connection which is live, like wherever you would
plug in a computer and get an IP address and Internet.<br>
4 On the LAN page, set it to Static, Set the LAN IP address to
whatever you want, its going to be local, and set the LAN DHCP number
of users, usually 4<br>
5 On the WIRELESS page, Each router will need it's own wireless IP
address, you have to assign it manually.<br>
Set the wireless IP address to whatever you want, make sure it is in
the same network as all the other routers and is a unique address. Set
the access mode to AD_HOC. set the ESSID to whatever you want to call
it, <b>make sure it's the same for all routers. </b> Set the power. <br>
6 Leave everything else alone<br>
7- Reboot, and wait a bit<br>
<br>
Turn on all the routers, choose one or more to plug the Internet into
the WAN port. Plug a computer into a LAN port. If all goes well, you
should have access. To use any point it as an access point, plug
another router into one of routers and configure it as a straight
access point. Flash it with something like X-wrt or DDwrt, then just
plug it into a Freifunk router. That would be a poor mans dual radio
setup, works great.<br>
<br>
Good Luck<br>
- Larry<br>
<br>
John Harris wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hii,
I have 3 Linksys routers to build a Mesh Network. Im using the Freifunk Firmware.
How can I make the configuration of an access point for one Linksys. I have no access to internet over the router which is connected with LAN.
Can anybody help me ?
How can I make the Configurations ?
g.
John
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