Re: [homenet] Homenet market gap analysis...

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[e-mail]>]

Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]> writes:

> I especially agree with the statement on wifi roaming between APs does
> require shared L2, and there has been discussions about this and how
> to solve that, and I think it's a requirement for homenet to become a
> useful solution in that space. This would probably require some kind
> of tunneling or vlan encapsuatlion between homenet devices to be
> controlled somehow. There are routing protocols out there that already
> do this, can perhaps be used as inspiration.

You don't actually need encapsulation or VLANs if all access points
participate in the routing protocol. You can just announce routes for
each of the clients' IP addresses on roaming. You'll need some mechanism
for discovering those IP addresses of course; one option is something
like l3roamd[0] (which more or less just sniffs the addresses used by
the client), but others are certainly possible. I remember discussing
other approaches with Juliusz at some point, but I guess none of us ever
got around to implementing something.

Either way, I guess this is something homenet could conceivably specify
a solution for if there was sufficient interest... :)

-Toke

[0] https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/l3roamd