On May 15, 2009, at 11:57 AM, xor wrote: > 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. >
Hmmm... but does a node want to advertise that we are running freenet? Maybe dependent on the security level setting. In either case, a small network would have major issues if it was not also connected to the large network, and so I think still that automatically detecting locality based on external ip address would help (e.g. a node could preferentially keep any opennet peers that it finds as being local). -- Robert Hailey _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
