[Cu-wireless] sputnik: www.sputnik.com

[Zachary C. Miller]

I don't think sputnik really does what we want.

It allows us to share bandwidth to the internet from a node but it
doesn't allow nodes to route through each other. My vision for our
network is not just for internet sharing, it is a fully autonomous
internet of our own for data sharing among Urbanaians.

Anyway software is easy. We can do pretty much everything we seek to
do with built in linux/bsd routing tools and existing internet routing
daemons because we're dealing with fixed links (not roaming
laptops). We can use something like sputnik (or nocatauth) to allow
roaming laptops to link into the network once it is up but we need to
do much fancier (and simultaneously more mundane) stuff to get what we
want.

Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> dave and i looked over the sputnik stuff this afternoon.  it's a cd
> bootable OS and appears to meet our initial needs for the nodes we are
> setting up.  it also appears to be open source and strangely enough
> doesn't seem to have any strings attached.  i've burned one copy so that
> we can play around with it on sunday.  though it's too early yet to tell
> if we've hit the jackpot or some such thing, it does look promising.
> 
> --sascha
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