[Voyage-linux] How to realize a Point to Point Connection

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

Hi,

I just setup something similar to what you are trying to do. A PtP link at
8km with CM9 cards. I found that using a AP/client mode works best for raw
through put (for now). If you just want a bridgeing link please see the
links below.

For AP:
http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_do_i_make_a_bridge_with_voyage
For Client:
http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_to_bridge_wireless_device_in_managed_mode

Or you can try a OpenVPN link:
http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=transparent_bridge

I am trying to figure out how to get maximun through-put from voyage and
the wrap. I orginally thought that a simple bridge may be best but after
limited testing it seems that the wrap can route really really fast. Which
is weird.  I am still testing this I need some links that can do 20Megs
and the bridging is not even close to be able to do that yet. So you may
want to play with that some. I also have not made a VPN link yet so I
don't have much experiance with that.

Also if you have more questions I am sure the list can help.

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/-\ ndrew

> Hi to all,
>
>
>
>             I'm actually using the 0.2pre1 version over a Wrap board with
> one CM9 card. I have no problem having the ath0 interface working in
> Master
> Mode, I get a very good Access Point. Now I'm interested in testing the
> possibility to perform long (>5 Km) point to point links. I'm not a
> 802.11a-guru, so maybe I'm wrong, but I have put the ath interface of both
> clients in Ad-Hoc mode with the same SSID. I get the two clients
> connecting
> each other but with a very very low speed < 1Mps, the iwconfig reports 0
> Kbps even if the received signal is bigger than -18 dBm (when the two
> clients are few meters away). I have changed the radio cards and the
> antenna, but it definitely seem a software problem.
>
> It's a problem of the madwifi driver included in the 0.2pre1?
>
> Tomorrow I will update to the 0.2pre3 version, but I would to know if the
> Ad-Hoc mode is the best one for a point to point link; in fact, reading
> the
> madwifi-ng documentation I am a bit confused since you can use both the
> Ad-Hoc (iwconfig) mode and the WDS functionality putting one client in STA
> mode and the other one in AP mode.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Tommaso