[MLB-WIRELESS] internet tunnelling between nodes

Darren Fulton darren.fulton at team.telstra.com
Tue Mar 15 09:24:57 EST 2005


Rowan Crowe wrote:
> 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?
> 

Traffic shaped tunnels would be a great interim step for nodes like 
mine. I'm in a valley and unlikey to have wireless connectivity until 
the node density increases in my area.

> FreeBSD seems to have GRE support built in these days (ifconfig gre0 ...)
> so Linux probably would have had that functionality about 3 years prior.
> ;-]
> 
> Cheers.
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