Matt {Undead} Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Would it be possible to link 2 fons together over wireless to cover a large wifi area. For example you got a laptop, a router, another router then a laptop.. ////////////Connects to ->//////<--------------->//////<--- Connects to Laptop 1 ------------------Fon1-------------------Fon2--------------------- Laptop 2 using some linux software to connect fon1 to fon2 as a bridge so that the area covered is larger. It would be cool to have a small cluster of wifi networks over a small community or a network with close friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothCriminal Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 It is called a mesh network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt {Undead} Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 Is it possible tho? does open wrt support it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcninja Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yes, if you use dd-wrt you can actually hook up to a wireless router wirelessly and then do it from one to another so laptop---fon1 (w/ dd-wrt)////////fon2(wirelessly connected to fon1)-laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 This is possible with OpenWRT as well. http://wiki.openwrt.org/OlsrMeshHowto There is another protocol for this that's a bit easier to setup and for the life of me I can't remember it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n0x Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 This is possible with OpenWRT as well. http://wiki.openwrt.org/OlsrMeshHowto There is another protocol for this that's a bit easier to setup and for the life of me I can't remember it. Would that other protocol be WDS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Yes, thank you, WDS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Token Ring? http://frottle.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crater Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Okay so similar question, no need for a new thread. Could you use the fon with jasager to connect to 1 wireless signal, and still function with karma as it does? So you can basically act as a wireless pass through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Okay so similar question, no need for a new thread. Could you use the fon with jasager to connect to 1 wireless signal, and still function with karma as it does? So you can basically act as a wireless pass through? I think you can get madwifi to work as both a client and an AP so you should be able to. You'd just use wlanconfig to create two VAPs then treat them as separate devices and run them in the same way you would ath0 and eth0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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