[MLB-WIRELESS] internet tunnelling between nodes

[rick]

mark i think your wrong partly, if we have 2 meshes why not allow a 
tunnel to allow low bandwidth traffic, till more suitible links can be 
made, i mean when rg southern and rg alabama connect it will be sweet 
but till then we have to do alot of planing

Mark Aitken wrote:

> This would defeat the purpose of the Melbourne Wireless's concept of a 
> free metro wide network.
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> Mark
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> Rowan Crowe wrote:
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>> In these days of flat rate or huge download limit broadband plans I'm
>> curious whether anyone has considered using IP tunnels over the internet
>> to join up parts of the network that for one reason or another cannot 
>> yet
>> connect directly via 802.11?
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>> FreeBSD seems to have GRE support built in these days (ifconfig gre0 
>> ...)
>> so Linux probably would have had that functionality about 3 years prior.
>> ;-]
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>> Cheers.
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