• Introduction
• Core Tasks
• Advanced Development

Introduction

This page is a table of contents for all of the HowTo documentation on this site. Follow the links below for what you want to build.

Note: We STRONGLY recommend using linux for working with fabfi. If you don't want to change your OS, run Ubuntu from a LiveCD.

Core Tasks

The most common use of a FabFi system is to extend or expand a high speed internet connection and charge users so as to recover cost of the leased bandwidth.

The fabfi wireless system consists of three major components which are all open source:

• FabFolk's FabFi Cloud Services (or make your own Fabfi Server). The Fabfi server runs in "the cloud", handles the authentication of clients and serves the stats page. Authentication and user accounting is managed centrally on the Fabfi Server.
• Make and install physical Fabfi Nodes. Any node can be an uplink to the internet.
• Headnode are local DNS servers and web caches
• Common Nodes make up the physical mesh network
• Fabfi Reflectors are used to enhance the RF signal of wifi devices for long-range links.

Administrators configure Users and Groups to control access to the network.

Advanced Development

In addition to the basic configuration instructions, we also have a section on Advanced Development that explains how to build images from scratch and perform other custom tasks:

• Build your own FabFi Image