[Commotion-dev] Unifying Serval and Commotion Mesh

[The Doctor]

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On 12/19/2012 10:49 AM, stephane at shimaore.net wrote:

> IPv6 in a non-Internet connected network is probably a good
> choice.

I think that's what Resau Libre' does.

> One thing to be careful about (for Internet-connected meshes), is 
> that IPv6 connectivity is far from ubiquituous: the node(s) on the
> mesh that connect to the Internet might not be able to route IPv6,
> for example because their ISPs don't support it yet -- this should
> become less of an issue over time. Hopefully that's already taken
> into account by the mesh routing protocol.

It's something of a surprise to find an ISP that does support IPv6.

That said, the solution I've seen deployed in the field is v6-in-v4
tunneling at the gateways.  I haven't tried it myself but I'm told it
works.

> Maybe more awkwardly, IPv6 and IPv4 are actually more like two
> separate technologies when it comes to connectivity: the same way
> that at some point in time you could access the Internet over IPX
> and over IPv4 (I'm showing my age..), nowadays you can access it
> using IPv6 and IPv4, but

Not really.  I went hunting for floppy disks at $work this morning for
a spectrum analyzer.

> Finally, I don't know about serval, but my experience with IPv6 and
> IPv4 and VoIP is that most stacks do not handle both together well;
> I'm not even talking about creepy situations where signaling might
> use one and media the other. >:)

Whoa.  Bizarre...

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