We are looking for people to help create wireless bridging and routing software for 802.11 networks. Please join our MailingLists and contribute to the discussion.
We have a SourceForge project.
If we can find a project that is already doing this work, there will be no need to reproduce it. This would be ideal.
Note: please post any comments or questions here. If you have a link you would like to share, post it on the WirelessSoftwareLinks page
MatthewAsham wrote up a draft for the IntraIntra Network Routing Protocol for remote networks.
Why do you want to bridge this sort of thing? Surely routing would be easier to setup and control? You could use either static routes or if you want something more sophisticated you could try something like RSPF. I got some info about that at http://rspf.sourceforge.net/
It's a network routing protocol similar to OSPF but it was meant for wireless networks. The daemon (which I wrote) is GPLed which means you can go and play.
Good luck with your efforts, hope Sydney gets something like this one day.
Client nodes would use IGP, access points would run BGP and DHCP proxies. One DHCP server (or a group of trusted DHCP servers) would hand out addresses. Routing (ie, can you get to the internet?) would be based on your MAC address and how your routes were set up. --RyJones
If you can get your upstream providers to allow you to peer using BGP - use Zebra for Linux (www.zebra.org) If you will be sharing multiple consumer connections, build your network in private IP space and use OSPF or IBGP to route you to the nearest MASQerading or NATing router on the network.
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http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/WirelessNetworkingSoftware?action=edit
