[Battlemesh] [wsfii-discuss] med-mesh, a proposal to obtain funding from the EU

[Roger Baig Viñas]

Hi,

On 3 February 2012 01:25, vortex at free2air.net <vortex at free2air.net> wrote:
> On 02/02/2012 17:38, Albert Homs i Gall wrote:
>
>
>
> 2012/2/2 <michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com>
>>
>> Hi!
>> On 16:37 Thu 02 Feb     , Albert Homs i Gall wrote:
>> ...
>> > 5-. Services working inside the network
>> > All the web applications mentioned provide some kind of network service
>> > listing or viewing, but also some other services focused to the users
>> > are
>> > worth deploying (like internet access, file sharing, IRC or whatever).
>> > Make
>> > this easier for "normal" users adds value to the network
>>
>> How did you solve solve this? Guifi.net says: "Total internet Gateways: 6
>> Direct Gateways and 197 Proxys". How do your users connect to the internet
>> gateways?
>
>  3 ways of getting access:
> a-. Inside some mesh clouds direct gateway is obtained trough the routing
> protocol
>
>
> Could you explain what that means? Which routing protocol and what do you
> mean by 'mesh clouds'?
>

'mesh clouds'=broadcast domain were a dynamic routing protocol (BMX6,
BATMAN, BABEL, etc.) is run

Each dynamic routing protocol has itsown way to announce uplinks and
to set the default route

>
> b-. Some VPN links to local ISP facilities or user-owned adsl
>
>
> Again, what does that mean? I would really like an overview of how that VPN
> architecture works, whether user owned or ISP facility based.
>

A standard VPN were the tunnel is set to get access to a restricted
resource, the uplink in this case.

>
> c-. Most users uses the proxy in their area, seetled by hand in their
> browsers, but a firefox plugin was created to makes this easier
>>
>> Do you have to manually define which one to use on each client?
>>
>
> Again how does a Firefox plugin assist in all this?

A plugin that uses the guifi.net proxies DB as the source of data.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam.
>
>
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roger