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On 07/21/2011 12:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

I am sorry this reply has been so delayed, work has been rough lately.

> Oh yeah, there should be no problem in a layer 2 mesh, if the mesh
> implements broadcast (or hacks in some ad hoc smarts related to DHCP).
> AHCP is only needed in a layer 3 mesh.

We also have a solution worked out for layer 3 meshes.  We will be using
DHCP to configure clients, and our control panel application can
pseudo-randomly choose RFC-1918 IP addresses for mesh interfaces if the
user selects it.  AHCP is still an option for configuring other mesh
nodes, we have not yet implemented that.

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