On May 15, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Bill Mccormick wrote: > Ok. I found 4 networking scenarios on the wiki at this link: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Networking_scenarios > > I was a little surprised not to see a scenario where a mesh network > connects via a mesh portal without a school server. Is this a > valid scenario, or was it deliberately excluded for some reason?
It was overlooked. The ability for an XO to act as an MPP while connected to the Internet through a second interface has been ignored lately, leaving the school server as our only MPP. Given the behavior of our collaboration software when there isn't a centralized presence service, this hasn't been a big loss. > Did anybody explicitly define how the networking should handle > changes in configuration? > > An obvious one is from an p2p mesh to a school mesh. I can see > how there could be troubles with a cluster of 1 or more XOs which > have an ephemeral connection to the school mesh - they would tend > to thrash between link local address assignment and DHCP address > assignment as the weak connection faded in and out. I think the > same thing would happen with mDNS and the presence protocols. Not really. This is an area of concern. > I'm really trying to get at the vision for how networking should > work. I've seen some comments here and there that networking > should just work - but I'm looking for something at the next level > of detail. I'm listening if anyone would like to share their > opinion. I'm working on a proposal to send around, but more urgent deadlines are interfering... wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel