David, Some examples:
- streaming media from your peers - e.g. iTunes shared libraries work over it - sharing folders/files over samba - sharing desktops (VNC, RDP) for collaborative development, debugging, etc - multi-user games These example use cases are similar to those motivating systems like Hamachi and gotomypc/gotomeeting; we're also interested in applications putting together the socialVPN and virtual appliances for collaborative environments. bests, --rf On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:08 AM, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > This sounds cool, but I don't quite understand what it's used for. Can you > give a common-use example? > > -david > > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 8:07 pm, Renato Figueiredo wrote: > >> Dear list members, >> >> We have developed SocialVPN (socialvpn.org), a P2P virtual network that >> uses social network infrastructures to seamlessly bootstrap VPN links >> between social peers. >> >> The SocialVPN builds upon the open-source Brunet P2P library. We have >> extended the IPOP (IP-over-P2P) virtual network, a structured P2P system >> which features decentralized UDP hole punching, optimizations tailored to IP >> tunneling, and support for multicast DNS (Bonjour/Avahi). A key novel aspect >> of the SocialVPN is its ability to avoid conflicts between the VPN and a >> host's existing IPv4 network by using private networks and dynamic address >> translation, a technique described in the COPS workshop this year. >> >> Our current implementation runs on Windows or Linux and uses the Facebook >> API, and bootstraps with an overlay deployed on PlanetLab. We are planning >> on implementations for other platforms and to support the OpenSocial API. If >> you are interested in using this software or develop applications around it, >> you can find documentation and downloads at http://socialvpn.org. >> >> Regards, >> --rf >> > -- Dr. Renato J. Figueiredo Associate Professor ACIS Lab / Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida http://byron.acis.ufl.edu ph: 352-392-6430
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