Thanks a lot.<br>Hope they'll be interrested.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/4/25, Ken <<a href="mailto:ken@ipl31.net">ken@ipl31.net</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Arthur,<br><br>I have forwarded this email on to some people that might be able to<br>provide mentorship for a summer of code project related to mesh<br>networking.<br><br>-Ken<br><br>On 4/24/06, ARTHUR WOLF <<a href="mailto:wolf.arthur@gmail.com">
wolf.arthur@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi.<br>><br>> First of all excuse me for my bad english.<br>><br>> Ok, so. Here in Belgium, we have a wireless mesh network, called "Citizen<br>> Network" (
<br>> <a href="http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Accueil">http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Accueil</a> ), wich<br>> looks lots like urs in Seattle.<br>> We have about 50 nodes, with almost 20 nodes 24h/24 connected, and some
<br>> little splitted networks of about 2 or 3 nodes around. (<br>> <a href="http://arthur.wolf.free.fr">http://arthur.wolf.free.fr</a> for a little map ).<br>> We use OLSR for routing, Ad-Hoc mode, and we are beginning to use 5Ghz.
<br>> The project goals and philosophy, translated in ensglish, is in fact ecactly<br>> just the same as whats written on Seattle Wireless frontpage.<br>> So this was to introduce the network.<br>><br>> One of the long time problem here is domain name resolution.
<br>> Having one centralized DNS server is against the philosophy of the project<br>> in wich no node can be more important than another node.<br>><br>> So i'm actually coding a Peer 2 peer DNS system, with dns server sharing
<br>> hosts information, and a simple interface for poeple to modify their own<br>> domain name etc ...<br>><br>> Another long time problem was IP allocation.<br>> As we dont want any ip list centralised somewhere , we here use ips
<br>> calculated on the last 3 numbers of the Mac Adress ( 00:11:22:33:44:55<br>> becomes <a href="http://10.3.4.5">10.3.4.5</a> ) , but even with this system, we can have ip collisions (<br>> hyppotetically )<br>
> So with the project of p2p dns, i'm adding a dhcp server provinding adresses<br>> calculated from the macadress, but verifying first it's not already in use,<br>> and always gining an interface the same ip.<br>
><br>> A small web interface is to be added to the project too, to manage<br>> configuration ( both peer and client ), and to be used as a portal.<br>> The whole project is coded in Perl, and will be ported on Linux, Windows,
<br>> OpenWRt, and maybe BSD. ( you can find a ( not up to date ) page describing<br>> a little of the project at<br>> <a href="http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Acdc">http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Acdc
</a> ( will be<br>> soon translated ) )<br>><br>> Ok, so what i'm here to ask you poeple for, is Google Summer of Code (<br>> <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">http://code.google.com/soc/</a> ).<br>> As i'm a student, i want to participate in it, but cant find any Mentor
<br>> organisation searching for things like my project.<br>> Poeple here in Belgium dont want to do it cause of philosophical problems (<br>> you must choose someone to represent the project ).<br>><br>> If you are interrest in my project, and if u see no problem with choosing
<br>> someone to represent ur project at GSoC, it would be nice to do it :)<br>> Inscriptions closes on May 1, so please answer quicly if you are<br>> interrested.<br>><br>> Thanks.<br>><br>> Arthur.<br>
><br>> ( ps : of course the whole thing is free, and btw earns 500$ to the<br>> mentoring organisation in case of success ).<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Talk mailing list
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