HP wrote:
> Another question is how to route personal (/m call) messages through a
> network of this style.
And the next one is: how do we recognize that nodes aren't reachable
anymore? Every node has to know the complete topology and quite
frankly I don't have the slightest idea how to keep consistency
(not to mention that I haven't found a way to store the tree
efficiently while keeping changes to it fast and mostly atomic). To
make it outright annoying, this is needed only for two small, yet
important purposes: personal messages and a correct user list.
> Other details are IRC-Like descriptive aplhanumeric channel-names and
> perhaps some kind of user-authentication.
It should designed in a way that an IRC emulation mode for user
clients won't be too hard to write.
> What is very low in priority is anything which has to do with
> internet-based interlinks. But it shouldn't be hard to do all this
> over plain ip, if the platform supports it.
Links and user access should be TCP/IP based but with AX.25
interoperability to nodes that aren't IP capable. It doesn't
make much difference programming wise on Linux, though.
73,
Joerg Reuter http://poboxes.com/jreuter/
And I make my way to where the warm scent of soil fills the evening air.
Everything is waiting quietly out there.... (Anne Clark)
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