Hi Kerry: It is a mostly experimental loop avoidance routing protocol. You can read more about it at http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/. Kirk On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > I'll bite, what's babled? > I've had a bit of a google but haven't come up with anything yet to tell me > what this is. > > Sounds fascinating. > > regards, Kerry. > > On 30/01/2012 3:03 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote: >> Boy, completely different than me. I run my wireless adhoc network >> totally open and encourage passers-by to use it. I also encourage >> visitors to install babled and partake in the cloud. >> >> Kirk >> >> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:00:11PM -0600, chris at the-brannons.com wrote: >>>> I just allow all ICMPv6 traffic. Is there anything wrong with that? >>> >>> I guess the answer to that would depend on one's point of view, and >>> level of paranoia (grin). Since yourself, Kirk, and maybe more folks >>> who haven't asked want to know why I'm asking this, I might as well >>> explain, and let all of you know just how paranoid I am. >>> >>> My brother in-law bought me a wireless access point recently. There's >>> a longer story behind that, and yes, my internal LAN was all wired >>> until now. Given the security history of wireless networking, I >>> decided that if I did wireless here, it would be fed off a separate >>> NIC in my machine, and that I'd run only ipsec over it, or something >>> even more secure. This is exactly what I did. The wireless access >>> point is >>> attached to a separate network interface on its own separate private >>> subnet. The idea is that even if someone were to break encryption, and >>> gain access to the wireless access point, all it would get then is a >>> class c v4 address and a documentation v6 address which they could >>> literally do nothing with without my giving them a ssl cert, and a >>> username/password if they're running windows. I currently have >>> ppp/l2tp/ipsec going for windows clients (previously mentioned longer >>> story), I almost have ipsec to ipsec between linux machines going over >>> v4, and am working on ipsec to ipsec between linux boxes over v6, >>> which is why I'm asking what I am. >>> >>> I've locked things down enough with ip6tables to block everything >>> inbound, and outbound on the NIC attached to the wireless access >>> point. This includes router advertisements, and neighbor >>> solicitations. In order to get the ipsec connection going, I first >>> need to issue the client a 2001:db8 address. So, I need to know what I >>> should allow through without ipsec to make that happen. Hopefully that >>> explains why I'm asking. >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> >>> - -- >>> web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >>> gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >>> skype: gregn1 >>> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >>> >>> - -- >>> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>> iEYEARECAAYFAk8ku6EACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyATIwCeN5ddTu+rtPy6CDIjUP/WhO8c >>> a0wAnRHZepDhhbvyl4LEGpEXFJcidA8m >>> =RodA >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> >> -- >> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility >> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario >> phone: (519) 661-3061 >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
