I have a few thoughts and comments on the subject of standards. More importantly tcwug standards. How do we want to go about our name conventions? How do we want to structure our IP's? Do we want to attempt to have "seamless roaming"? And if we do, do we want to have many tcwug essid's or maybe <local-essid>.tcwug.org? Jima suggested we have <neighborhood>.tcwug.org for the WAN side IP's. =20 Seamless roaming , to me, implies that one can go from one AP to the next without adjusting your settings. If we have <hood>.tcwug.org essid's this not permit perfect seamless roaming. If we had this naming scheme and coordinated all our IP's in the same subnet we could have "disected roaming". This would enable one to keep an ssh session open between different AP's. I really like the idea of seamless roaming. However, I also like the idea of breaking up the naming into neighborhoods. I live in the Longfellow 'hood. I have an AP with essid AAA. So I could have an Access Point name (not essid) of AAA.Longfellow.tcwug.org. ( I am mainly just typing/thinking out loud). I am seeing alot of little dots on maps.tcwug.org in the Longfellow 'hood. We should begin to "connect the dots". I have been playing with these little D-Link 900AP's. They are inexpensive and very functional. They are based on the Atmel chipset so they are configurable with the Atmel utility. Nate has the utilities on his site ( I don't feel right posting the url tho, Nate?) There is also a Linux application for configuring the Atmel radios via snmp. http://ap-utils.polesye.net/ It is still fairly buggy, but it is cool. It also has some handy mrtg functionality as well. I tried to use the ap-Atmel utility and had minor success. I well keep an eye on this project. I am sure there are some more snmp utilities out there for Linux/OS X. Anyone else have an good experience with *nix AP utils. Well, I am eager to get some connectivity to other wuggers in the near future. I should have an omni and I directional mounted on my house in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully on my van as well :) Is anyone up for the challenge? -- --*--SpencerUnderground--*-- http://autonomous.tv/ spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20020616/d21a0cb1/attachment.pgp