On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, John Watlington wrote: >> In the case of the mesh portal (A NAT Internet Gateway in our case) we >> need to get back the IP address of the gateway as well as DNS info. >> A simple python server listening at a predefined port was providing >> that. >> That simple server has been replaced by a complete DHCP server in our >> current implementation. > > > The DHCP server was needed anyway. And to implement shortest path > routing both for sent and received packets, we needed a mechanism for > receiving an IP address that reflected the nearest MPP anyway (or use > NAT, > something we would like to avoid inside the school....)
you really don't want to have your IP address change becouse you moved to have a different MPP closer to you. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel