um... the internet routing architecture didn't explode in 1997 becuase we'd didn't do this. meshed network edges need an igp, some sanity and cooperative upstreams, otherwise you'll just have a very large very messy subnet with not external routing.
joelja On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, S Woodside wrote: > Well, it's a fairly minor dream. What I imagine is this: I have DSL. My > neighbour has DSL. We also both have WiFi APs that can reach each > other, and connect at order-of-magnitude faster than the DSL links. > What I dream is this: That we start routing internet across the link. > When I start pulling packets off the internet, they can come to me not > only through my own DSL but from hers as well. I think this boils down > to an ultimate simplicity what all FN / CWNers want to achieve. > > What needs to happen before I can realize my dream. I need to get an > IPv6 address ... at least one ... for free. I need to be able to set up > multi-homing in my home router. I need to be able to advertise my > routing path to the internet. The internet needs to be able to handle > at a massive scale (since every neighbour connects...). We need a /lot/ > more IP addresses than we have now. I need to use a /real/ IP address > because I can't route internet traffic through a NAT/site-local > address. I need to have an ad-hoc routing algorithm that can set up > this bridge and route across it really easily (because I'm not a > trained network admin). Forget about BGP, AS, etc., we need a way to > handle the massive overload of routes at local scale, at a regional > scale, at a global scale -- something that will scale gracefully as the > internet topology shifts from a tree to a massively connected mesh. > > Please comment ... tell me what you think. > > Simon > > PS I'm cross-posting this to a bunch of lists because I don't know one > it belongs on. If you think you know which is best, please tell me! > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
