IPv6, interNAT, Wi-Fi (not mobile)

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@yahoo.com>]

Speaking of that ... I've been active in the community networking 
community for a little while and I've started to interest myself in 
mesh and/or ad-hoc wireless situations. (note that I'm specifically not 
interested in mobility). The application I'm interested in particularly 
is using WiFi to bring internet broadband to areas where it's not 
accessible currently. That could be either last-mile areas or rural 
areas. The concept of setting up a "mesh" network (surely an overloaded 
term if there is one ...) in the wifi community maps roughly speaking 
to "fixed ad-hoc wireless" in the research community, AFAICT.

With that in mind, there is currently only one publicly available, 
deployed "mesh" solution called Locustworld MeshAP, that uses private 
IPv4 subnets like 10.0.x.x and 192.168.x.x for all of the meshed access 
points and something called "WIANA" <http://wiana.org> to manage the 
nodes. Not very scaleable or friendly IMHO. Other private or community 
WLANs are mostly hand-configured ... there's another one by Seattle 
Wireless that I haven't looked closely at yet.

In addition I recently had to cope with the hassles of setting up an 
H.323 connection (with ohphoneX) from behind a firewall at both ends 
and immediately concluded that people on any kind of wireless mesh that 
uses NAT are going to be severely limited since they aren't truly a 
part of the internet.

So I would like to request discussion on this subject. I have a lot 
more to say about it but maybe I'll stop here for now ;-)

simon


On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 05:10  PM, Lloyd Wood wrote:

> InterNAT
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