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WiND - Wireless Nodes Database
Welcome!
WiND is a Web application targeted at Wireless Community Networks. It was created as a replacement for NodeDB for the members of Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) located in Athens, Greece. It has evolved into much more as you can see below in the feature list.
License
WiND was created by a team of people and each piece of code remains under the copyright of their respective author.
WiND is Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPL. Everyone can see the source code and everyone can contribute to it. In fact, please do!
Techical information
WiND is written in PHP and uses a MySQL backend for storing the data. Smarty is used as the theme engine.
Features
- Supports multiple users and multiple nodes per user
- User management: different access rights for each job
- Stores all the node information a Wireless MAN will need: location, height, area, region, backbone & AP interfaces, roof view photos, subnets & hosts in a node etc.
- Provides an easy (but powerful) way of searching for specific nodes
- Using NASA's SRTM data, it graphs the Line of Sight (and Fresnel Zone) between two nodes and calculates Free Space Loss for the distance between them
- Uses Google Maps to show the nodes and their links on the map.
- Can be used to manage the distribution of IP Ranges and forward/reverse DNS assigned to each node (Hostmaster)
- Fully themeable interface (using simple (X)HTML templates)
- Support for localization; Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Integrates with BIND Nameserver for serving the DNS zones, PowerDNS integration planned
- A WHOIS server is provided that serves the data using the WHOIS protocol
Future Plans
Consult the to do list. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Demo
You can always find a working demo of the latest development version at http://wind.sf.net.
Also you can visit working installations by communities that currently using WiND:
- AWMN - Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
- TrWN - Tripoli Wireless Network
- TWMN - Thessaloniki's Wireless Metropolitan Network
- WiMAN - Wireless Metropolitan Agrinio Network
- EWN - Evia Wireless Network
- Veria Wireless Metropolitan Network
- TOWN - Trikala Open Wireless Network
- HSWN - Heraklion Wireless Network
- Patras Wireless Metropolitan Network
Download
At the moment, no releases have been made, although this will happen soon.
You can always use SVN to checkout the latest, bleeding-edge code.
Note that an SVN snapshot isn't supposed to be used in a production enviroment. It is under development and as such it may break and/or cause serious data loss.
You have been warned!
Documentation
Visit the documentation page for detailed information about the project.
Bugs
If you found a bug please open a Ticket in our Bug Tracking System.
Contact us
Feel free to contact us: wind - a t - cube.gr
Donate
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