System and method for self-configuring adaptive wireless router network

摘要

An automated and distributed method is provided for configuring addressing of nodes in a wireless network, where the nodes includes at least one wireless interface and a network interface which connects to an external network. Briefly, the method includes: assigning a wireless network address to the wireless interface associated with the node; assigning another external network address to the external network interface associated with the node in a manner where a subnet identifier of the network address for the external interface correlates to a host identifier of the network address for the wireless network. The method may further include assigning further network addresses to one or more network devices which share the same subnetwork as the external network interface of the node.