On Friday 15 May 2009 18:37:12 Thomas Sachau wrote:
> xor schrieb:
> > On Thursday 14 May 2009 19:35:07 Thomas Sachau wrote:
> >> Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> >>> My observation: Can we get rid of the "I will configure it manually"
> >>> choice? And maybe the welcome page? (#3094)
> >>
> >> You want to force everyone to use the Wizard?
> >>
> >>> Because we were both on the same LAN, it did not connect, until I told
> >>> him to set it to allow local addresses on that peer. There should be a
> >>> checkbox when adding a noderef, defaulting to on, "Friend may be on the
> >>> same local network as me" or something. (#3098)
> >>
> >> This is imho not usual, so i would set this to very low priority and
> >> only for advanced mode enabled.
> >
> > IMHO the current behavior is a "bug" though: We have the MDNS plugin,
> > which is installed by default and should automatically (opennet-) connect
> > nodes on a LAN. However it does not work because LAN connections are
> > disallowed by default.
>
> Afaik that plugin is no longer installed by default.

Why not? I like the idea of self-organizing Freenet on LANs very much :)

Especially if you consider large public or private LANs where two people 
running Freenet might not even know each others, so they couldn't get manually 
connected.

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