> I started thinking about freenet and private (NAT:ed) networks. > Mojo Nation uses a relay service so that client behind NAT-gateways > can participate in the network. Since more and more hosts connects > to the internet that way I think such capabilities in fred would > be a "Good Thing"(tm). > > My line of though: > * Start with simply forwarding freenet packets: > + option in fred forces clients and servlets to forward > all requests to statically configured relay. > + a new optional servlet listen for relay requests > and opens a listening port. > + Node adresses must be sent back and used by fred clients/servlets > or translated in-stream by the relay. > > and then extend: > * the relay could actively participate in the exchange, > "caching" popular data the normal freenet way. > * dynamic relay lookup > * multistep relay configuration for complicated internal networks > > All could be implemented by subclassing some of fred classes > and adding optional configuration entries with little impact on > existing code. > > Comments?
The problem is that this creates a point of centralization, though centralization is inheirant in NAT and there is probably no way around it. <obvious type="blatent">We need IPv6</obvious> _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
