On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:39:28PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Oh one other thing: It would be really nice if we could connect directly > > to nodes on the same LAN (or PC!). The main issue here is determining > > whether we ARE on the same LAN; we can find our LAN address very easily. > > Is there any harm in just sending a handshake packet to the peer's LAN > address, and trying the external address if there's no response from the > LAN address? Initially this seems like a security risk because it could > reveal that you're running a node, but in fact an eavesdropper on your > LAN can see all packets regardless of whether they're addressed to local > or remote peers, so I'm not sure any extra information is revealed.
Not true with UTP-based networks. > > Cheers, > Michael -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060424/13432d78/attachment.pgp>
