RADIUSdesk

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More On Managed Hardware

  • MESHdesk and APdesk can manage OpenWRT based hardware.
  • The device requires a minimum of
    • 64M RAM
    • 8M FLASH
  • Devices with up to three radios are supported.
  • We use the basic OpenWRT (21.02.1 at the time of this writing) with two added packages.
    • zzz-MESHdesk - This package contains the libraries which act as the agent between the controller and the device.
    • luci-app-meshdesk - This Luci application allows you to enable and disable central management using the Luci Web Interface.
  • There are currently three Xiaomi APs for which we supply ready built firmware
    • 4A 100M Edition
    • 4A Gigabit Edition
    • 4C
  • These three devices are fully supported in MESHdesk which means you can deploy Batman-Adv based mesh networks in a snap.
    • The following Internet connection to a device is supported
      1. WAN (Ethernet) with DHCP
      2. WAN (Ethernet) with Fixed IP Address
      3. WAN (Ethernet) with PPPoE (ISP)
      4. Mesh (Batman-Adv)
      5. Wi-Fi with DHCP
      6. WiFi Client with DHCP
      7. WiFi Client with Fixed IP Address
      8. WiFi Client with PPPoe (WISP)
      9. LTE/4G (requires OpenWRT supported 4G Modem)