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

!! Status
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
(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

!! Software
[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 - 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
* 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 ...
* 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 ...