Help with Mesh Portal

[Javier Cardona]

Hi Chris,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Crawford <cpc5 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone set up a mesh portal?

Yes, our team tested YanBo's partial implementation of the mesh portal
functionality.

> I want to set up a mesh portal, but I'm running into a problem.  I have a laptop
> with a ethernet port (eth0) and mesh connection and ideally this mesh portal
> would bridge the two. I have followed the directions at
> http://www.open80211s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO#MeshPortalMPP
>
> Only the mesh or the wired connection will work after I bring up the bridge, but
> never both.

Can you be more specific about the meaning of "will work" in this
context?  What failures did you encounter?

> I'd appreciate any tips you may have on how to get traffic following through the
> mesh portal.

Perhaps the HOWTO could be clearer regarding what you can do with the
current implementation:  it can only be used to connect a number of
802.3 subnets via a mesh network.  There needs to be a mesh portal set
up for each subnet that you want to connect.  Once you set up the mesh
portals, the subnets will be connected at layer 2.  What you won't be
able to do is to connect from an internal mesh node to nodes in the
external subnets.  Is that what you are trying?

> (I'm new to this list.  Is this an appropriate place for this question, or should
> I be asking over at linux-wireless?)

You may get a bigger audience there.  It's probably a good idea to
send it to both lists.

Cheers,

Javier