How to carry out scale, performance and usability testing?

[Brian DeLacey]

I've now had good success establishing a small six-machine mesh using
systems from different manufacturers and of different configurations and
vintages. I've then been able to run a simple Python program over the mesh.
The answers on this list have been extremely helpful - and instrumental in
getting this up and running.
Working configurations now include radios from different vendors and in
different form factors (ie. built-in laptop radios, plugged in PCI and
PCMCIA, and USB.)
We have a small group of people willing to help scale up this testing. Our
near-term goal is to form a 25 node mesh. What should our testing strategy
look like?

We'd like to test some mobile mesh points (e.g. laptops walking around)
communicating with fixed mesh points (e.g. desktops on mesh in fixed office
locations.) If we are successful with this, we'll press on for a 100+ mesh
points in a net. The 100+ goal is inspired by  this status
report<https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-1313-00-000s-current-status-of-open80211s.ppt>
to
the IEEE. So if any of our testing could help feed into that large scale
testing process, we'd certainly be glad to share the results and underlying
data.

Do you have any scale / performance suggestions? any software tools for
stats reporting / network performance and measurement? Any huge potholes to
avoid?

Thanks,

Brian
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