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A quick check list of steps to remember.
A quick check list of steps to remember.


1. Plan your network.
# Plan your network.
2. Update your routers with the Freifunk firmware.
# Update your routers with the Freifunk firmware.
3. Get the Nodes up without the extra 'freifunk-dnsmasq' package.
# Get the Nodes up without the extra 'freifunk-dnsmasq' package.
4. Check if the mesh is running.  
# Check if the mesh is running.  
5. Connect the internet to the WAN port of the selected Node.
# Connect the internet to the WAN port of the selected Node.
6. Through the internet update all your Nodes one by one with the 'freifunk-dnsmasq' package.
# Through the internet update all your Nodes one by one with the 'freifunk-dnsmasq' package.
7. Set your OLSR-DHCP setting and now your mesh is fully ready.  
# Set your OLSR-DHCP setting and now your mesh is fully ready.  
8. You can replace the internet with local webserver/s that acts as the local free knowledge base.  
# You can replace the internet with local webserver/s that acts as the local free knowledge base.  


In the setup at HBCSE in Mahkhurd Mumbai, we used 2 Linksys routers to form an OLSR mesh. We called them Node1 and Node2.
In the setup at HBCSE in Mahkhurd Mumbai, we used 2 Linksys routers to form an OLSR mesh. We called them Node1 and Node2.
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