Hi, I've got a few questions about the current fred implementation. I've heard the issue raised recently about a FAQ stating that the communication between the Freenet nodes is not encrypted. Is this true? Other documentation implies that all communication between individual nodes occurs over encrypted connections. I suspect the FAQ in question is wrong, but I'm curious to find out for sure.
The next question is regarding the network setup used for Freenet. Can the current node implementation deal with living on multiple IP addresses at the same time? If Fred is running on a multi-homed system, load balanced over multiple networks, with the relevant ports forwarded from the central hub to the actual node (single interface on fred host, with multiple interfaces port-forwarded to it from the hub), will this work as expected? Or is it likely to break things? I have briefly tried it, and it looks like it works, with the traffic eventually distributing over all available connections. I am concerned, however, that this could potentially result in the node trying to talk to itself on it's different interfaces? Or is it likely to break other things, (security or anonymity for example). What happens if the node is given a "name" for itself that resolves to multiple IP addresses (matching with the above mentioned multiple parallel network paths)? Will this cause any problems? Thirdly, what are the implications of running multiple nodes on the same IP address(es), on different ports? Will this work as expected? Will it work at all? Will it break all of the nodes sharing the address(es)? Regards. Gordan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
