On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:51:13AM -0700, Mr . Bad wrote:
> >>>>> "d" == david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> So, as most people know, Fred has most of the code about making
> >> connections between nodes pretty abstracted out. Right now, the
> >> only connection classes are for direct TCP connections between
> >> nodes, but I've been wondering about other types of connections
> >> and addresses.
>
> d> Instead of tunneling, how's about directly over some other
> d> protocols?
>
> Well, it's tunneling in the sense that the FNP is encapsulated over
> the other protocol. This is probably the easiest way to make Fred use
> other protocols. As best I can tell, it'd be pretty hairy (read:
> practically impossible, and not really worth it) to make the Core
> speak something besides FNP.
>
Tunneling is encapsulation at the same layer right?
> d> UUCP
>
> d> Believe it or not, it's still used, and usefull, in large
> d> portions of the world.
>
> Well, hrm. That's interesting, I guess. Sure would fake people out.
>
> d> Bluetooth L2CAP
>
> d> Has its own transport layer encryption, and even if Bluetooth
> d> isn't the bee's knee's, other similar technologies are likely
> d> to come along.
>
> Freenet on your Fridge!
>
> d> Ethernet
>
> d> Is TCP/IP even necessary when talking to nodes on the same lan?
> d> Not sure, but it might be worth investigating. Especially now
> d> that there is talk of last mile Ethernet over fiber.
>
> The big problem here is that it's pretty hard to write Javur code that
> goes directly to Ethernet, skipping over TCP/IP. And there's
> DEFINITELY no system independent way to do it. I wouldn't want to try
> it.
Yeah. Hamstrung by the language dujour.
So, I guess my long time question "Is it a Java application or a networking
technology?" has been answered.
David Schutt
>
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