Hi! I have been reading:
http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected] And I got some thoughts. "Unlike AHCP 0, AHCP 1 requires that servers have read-write persistent storage; a small flash should be enough, but you'll not be able to run AHCP 1 servers on disk-less, flash-less netbooted nodes." Does this mean that they need persistent storage across reboots? "For the same reason, a node will not be able to autoconfigure unless it can reach a server." This is problematic in mesh splits. I believe the main advantage of mesh networks over other networks is that they should be auto-configurable and that works also independently of an Internet connection or a connection to a central server. Such mesh networks together with service discovery means that people can connect their devices together automatically and share data and services. I believe this is really useful with mobile devices as it brings networking where otherwise there is no infrastructure. Just think about an idea that all mobile phones would run in ad-hoc mode meshing with every other and running a routing protocol over it. And sharing data and services. Then we do not need to go for everything into the Internet, but people could start giving services over their phones. In such networks splits will be common. You will go around and you will lose connectivity, one group will be connected (in a classroom for example) but not connected to another group. Somebody reboots its mobile phone - how it will configure? Probably we can solve this easily in IPv6 - we just have multiple IPv6 addresses for every device. Assigned one (if this is possible) and also self-assigned one from device's MAC address (but not link-local). So for local service-discovery content and services it would work. Only the device would not be reachable from the Internet. But if it is in split this the device would not be in any case. So the idea is to run AHCP server on every Internet gateway and this is it? And use additional IPv6 addresses always. Mitar _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
