LUGRo-Mesh is a project that is being developed by LUGRo the Free Software Users Group of the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. (Lugro stands for its Spanish name: Grupo de Usuarios de Software Libre de Rosario ) . The project is meant to provide free Internet access to the inhabitants of Rosario and its surroundings. It uses redundancy and is developed entirely on free software.
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As part of its name implies, it is based in using wireless LAN Mesh networking topology because it is one of the best ways of deploying a Wi-Fi Net in a city with a skyline that is composed by very big buildings and where redundancy and a rapid deployment are needed.
Nightwing
To be able to fulfill the project using low-cost hardware, a firmware that is based on OpenWrt and is called Nightwing has been developed. It allows creating rapidly deployable wireless meshwork with low human interventions. Using B.A.T.M.A.N. (a routing protocol that is compatible with this firmware), Nightwing enables the network’s growth by the simple addition of equipment.
It uses WiFiDog as a Captive Portal and OpenDNS for content filtering.
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