Jon Smirl wrote: Hi Jon -
>> The intended effect is that you can simultaneously run your encrypted >> network connection, keeping your normal traffic and internet >> connectivity private as usual, and yet also participate in a general, >> unencrypted (on the transport layer, anyway) broadcast-based network >> with anyone in range. I have evolved a protocol system for such a >> network and am in the process of implementing it using this patch. > > I'm interested in doing pretty much the same thing. My application is > broadcast audio to multiple recipients. Some of the recipients need a > network hop to reach them. Yes, that is exactly the concept, a parallel unencrypted broadcast network that everyone in range on the same channel can participate in. Since there are no ACKs it is like UDP, no guarantees anything gets anywhere. > This is basically the main features of 802.11s mesh networking which > is under development. The only working 802.11s system I am aware of is > the OLPC. 802.11s looks like it will be pretty awesome when it exists, but for my usage case it's a feature that this transport would be broadcast-only, with no station IDs and no routability and work on today's stacks. -Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
