[MLB-WIRELESS] internet tunnelling between nodes

Rowan Crowe rowan at sensation.net.au
Tue Mar 22 12:56:50 EST 2005


My original idea was that it could easily be free, making use of
underutilised transfer allowances on existing (residential) broadband
links. There does need to be some mechanism in place to ensure that a
tunnel won't exceed hard transfer limits, or grab too much bw on an
unlimited use account.

Judging by some of the heated replies so far there's more to it than just
tech issues... ;)

Cheers.


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Luke Robinson wrote:

> This could be done pretty cheaply using 256k or 512k connections
> through ISPs that offer unmetered PIPE or VIX traffic....
>
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:17:14 +1100 (EST), Rowan Crowe
> <rowan at sensation.net.au> 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?
> >
> > 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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