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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:30 -0500
From: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>
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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
CC: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Madwifi-devel] Survey: What are you using MadWifi for, and why?
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Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM, David Acker <dacker@roinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>  1. What are you using MadWifi for?
>>> Wireless mesh on embedded systems.
> 
> I'm curious -- what type of Mesh were you talking about David? I
> didn't know MadWifi supported 802.11s so don't know if that is what
> you mean.
It is a non-802.11s protocol that predates 802.11s development by quite 
awhile.  It runs over WDS links.  In theory it could run over anything 
that supports dynamic creation and destruction of WDS links.


>> FWIW ath5k has working draft-802.11s mesh mode, in fact it's one of
>> the better-supported drivers.
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out Andrey.
Yes, that is good to hear.

-ack