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Node CIB - status 15/3/03


Admin: Clae

Status: Gathering

Location Near the corner of Punt and Toorak Roads. If you can see the gigantic spire of Christ Church, South Yarra from your place, we're opposite that.

Line of Sight

Please feel free to email me if you are in the following areas, and would like to try some experimental linkage. Anyone who wants to come play roof monkeys is welcome too - be warned it's a steep tiled roof with a 2 & 1/2 storey drop.


Coming soon!


I'm pretty inexperienced at networking. I've been a Mac user since for ever, and have always used Appletalk networks (serial port adapter, bus topology, proprietary protocol). They are fairly plug and play as you'd expect, but it doesn't teach you anything about IP for example. I have never set up a *nix box, although I have used them occasionally. The same goes for Windows boxes and IP/Ethernet networks. I'd certainly appreciate a whack with the cluestick.

There are two or more nodes under development here. To be honest, working out how to do it as cheaply as possible is going to be the key to getting them up, as my total income is fixed at about $200 a week, apart from what I can make selling excess hardware. This is going to make a big difference to the hardware choices I make. And I still have an analogue synth habit to support :-)

First, NodeCIB. This is my old man's place, and I am not sure how long I plan to live here. So I want to install a node here as cheaply as possible, that I can leave behind if necessary, and which will become part of Das Ubermesh (ad hoc for now, possible AP later, OSPF/Zebra capable etc etc). It should also be as reliable as possible, so I don't have to do many callouts. I'm assuming this means a Unix box with cards, or an AP. I should probably also minimise the amount of hole drilling and tile lifting I do.

Secondly, the low-power system for my mobile home. This will be a leaf/ad hoc node initially - probably just my laptop and a roof mount for my omni. Eventually I will want to add a directional antenna or two and a low-power flashable AP or an embedded (PC-104 etc) system board, and a mast. Further options would be a GPS and antenna rotators. I would like to be able to provide local AP service at temporary sites (like Melbourne Wireless meetings, parties, festivals, conferences, protests) and bridge that to the rest of the network through a directional.

A note about low-power use. This system will spend at least part of its life running from a battery bank charged by solar panels and/or a small wind turbine. All of these are expensive, so spending a little extra on hardware to get the power useage down is well worth it. The laptop would use somewhere between 10 and 45 watts depending on screen, HD and wireless activity. To give you an idea, a 40 watt solar panel is about $450 - and that's its peak power, at noon on a sunny day. Ideally, I want to get down to under 5 watts, which might be possible with a flashed AP.

Equipment and Software:






PC hardware

Needed:


Sale and trade page: [Clae's stack o stuff sought and sold]

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