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 !! About 

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-At the home of TimshelKnoll, west bank of the Maribyrnong River, Footscray. 

-Right near the mobile phone tower in East Footscray ... hrm is that tower going to cause me problems ??? 

+At the home of TimshelKnollMiller, west bank of the [RGMaribyrnong Maribyrnong] River, Footscray. 

 

 !! Status 

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-I'm currently still collecting components to get NodeDDE up and running - currently all I've got is the actual system which the wireless card will go in eventually (an Pentium 75/40Mb RAM). Initially I hope to get up and running in IBSS with a HomeBrew cantenna, but I hope to eventually HomeBrew an OmniAntenna and run as an AccessPoint, providing DHCP, OSPF, IPv6 and more. 

-Currently my home network consists of a number of [Debian Debian GNU/Linux] woody and sid / Windoze 98 / 2000 / XP boxes, running both IPv4 and IPv6 over ethernet. 

+I'm currently still collecting components to get NodeDDE up and running - currently all I've got is the actual system which the wireless card will go in eventually (an old Dell Latitude CPi A400XT laptop with a broken screen). Initially I hope to get up and running in IBSS with a HomeBrew cantenna, but I hope to eventually HomeBrew an OmniAntenna and run as an AccessPoint, providing DHCP, OSPF, IPv6 and more. 

+Currently my home network consists of a number of [NetBSD], [Debian Debian GNU/Linux] woody and sid / Windoze 98 / 2000 / XP boxes, running both IPv4 and IPv6 over ethernet. 

 

 !! Hardware 

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 (still gathering) 

+* Dell Latitude CPi A400XT laptop (Pentium II 400 MHz) / Dell OptiPlex GXPro desktop 

+* [EnterasysCards Enterasys/Cabletron] RoamAbout wireless card, flashed with [Orinoco ORiNOCO] 8.72.1 [EnterasysFirmware firmware] 

+* [Carriers Ricoh PCI -> PCMCIA cradle] in the Dell desktop 

+* [HomeBrew Home Brewed] [Cantenna] from Golden Circle juice cans 

 

-* Pentium 75, 40Mb RAM. Hopefully this will do what I need it to :-) 

-* [EnterasysCards Enterasys] RoamAbout wireless card 

-* Ricoh PCI -> PCMCIA cradle, doesn't work in any of my boxes, since I don't have anything that supports PCI2.2. As such both this and my Enterasys card are in testing at a friend's place who has 2 PCI2.2 computers (not running Linux, unfortunately) 

-* [HomeBrew Home Brewed] cantenna 

 !! Software 

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-[Debian Debian GNU/Linux] woody. And nothing less accepted :-) 

-Except maybe the upcoming Debian GNU/NetBSD or Debian GNU/FreeBSD :-) 

+[NetBSD]. And nothing less accepted :-) I can't recommend it highly enough, NetBSD's networking is second to none. 

 

 !! LOS 

 * '''South east''': Good LOS to the south-east over the Docks (not many people living in that area though :-) 

 * '''East''': Good LOS to east bank of Maribyrnong in Kensington, also LOS to west-facing high areas of North Melbourne and as far as the city 

-* '''North east''': can see much of the south-west facing parts of Ascot Vale and Flemington 

-* '''North''': LOS as far as Essendon in this direction. However, a large object (Flemington Racecourse grandstand) obscures much of the view in this direction ... :-( 

+* '''North east''': can see much of the south-west facing parts of Ascot Vale and Flemington - however a large object (the Flemington Racecource grandstand) obscures a section of this area. :-( 

+* '''North''': Decent LOS as far as Essendon in this direction. 

 

 Not much else to see in other directions, minimal LOS to the south, even less to the west and north-west. 

 

 !! TODO 

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 * Do more general wireless testing / playing 

 * Get myself an ISA -> PCMCIA adapter to use at home (I don't have any PCI2.2 compliant PC's) :-( If you've got one you want to get rid of, please contact me ... 

-* Build and test some home-brew cantennas - I do the "other" sort of home brewing, so I want to test how homebrew kit cans go as cantennas ... 

-* Build a faster, better dedicated box than my P75 (hrm, would do if I had more money ... maybe I should look at buying an old-ish notebook ... 

-* Read up on and play around with various protocols, including OSPF (Zebra) and IPSEC (FreeS/WAN) 

-* Get up on the roof and set up some kind of antenna mast. My housemate actually scored a 12M mast from somewhere, but I think it's too tall to legally use without a permit. I'm not sure how long I'll be in my current house, either, so might wait and see what the next house provides ... 

+* Finish building and test my home-brew cantennas - still need to get pigtails for my [EnterasysCards Enterasys Card]. I also do the "other" sort of home brewing, so I want to test how homebrew kit cans go as cantennas ... 

+* Read up on and play around with various protocols, including OSPF ([Zebra] / [Quagga]) and IPSEC 

+* Get up on the roof and set up some kind of antenna mast. My housemate actually scored a 12M mast from somewhere, but I think it's too tall to legally use without a permit. 

 * Borrow a digital camera and take some photos from my roof, then post them for all to see ...