Two WRT54G Mesh Routers

You now have two NW-MESH routers...   What does that mean.

References:

• NW-MESH Yahoo Group
• Broadband Hamnet  - was HSMM-MESH

What can you do with them.

• Mesh with any other NW-MESH nodes automatically.
• Setup services on the MESH lan which are advertised on the Mesh home page for others to access.
• Mesh with BBHN nodes by turning off olsrd_secure and changing the SSID
• Use BBHN nodes with these by installed olsrd_secure and changing the SSID

Some Notes.

• The web admin page is on http://localnode:8080
• SSH access is on port xx22 instead of the normal port 22
• The SSID of the nodes is currently NW-MESH-2412.   The 2412 is the frequency in Megahertz of channel 1 of the 2.4 GHz wifi band.  This was added to uniquely identiy the mesh nodes per channel.  With out that, some nodes would 'mesh' with other nodes even if they weren't on the desired channel.
• You cannot Connect or Associated with the Mesh nodes by the NW-MESH-2412 name.  This is strictly for operation of the mesh between mesh nodes.
• You can access the mesh by either a network cable link to one of the four LAN ports on a router box or by WIFI RF to an Access Point which is itself connected to a LAN port.
• Each node has 4 MB to start with and approximately 400K free after the install.  That's enough space for some small features such as the Next Generation IRC server - NGIRC.