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On 08/09/2011 05:04 PM, Mitar wrote:
What exactly is this control panel? What do you understand under this term? It is something running on the node? Or on the server?
The Byzantium control panel is an application which allows the user to (de)configure network interfaces, add or remove them from a mesh, and enable or disable services and web applications running on a node. It runs on a node (listening only on the loopback interface) and is accessed with any web browser. Technically, it is a web application, but seeing as how Byzantium will package a couple of web applications for public use on a mesh anyway (Etherpad-lite, crypto.cat, status.net, and a few others) it made more sense to call it a control panel.
Is there some webpage with more about that?
http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium_Live_Distro (developer info)
You are talking about IPv6 or IPv4 here?In IPv4 some MAC address + IPv6 prefix could be enough.
IPv4. We considered IPv6, and in fact we get it for free with the Linux kernel, but not all applications are aware of or play nicely with it.
In IPv4 is problem, that if you will take big address space you will have problems peering with other mesh networks. If this will be one day interesting to you. (At least in Europe we are slowly trying to connect all networks together.)
This is an interesting problem to us, and one of the things we have in mind once Byzantium is stable is correcting problems with interoperability. In the States right now, mesh networking is not really a popular technology; hopefully Byzantium will drum up more interest over here (and open a meaningful dialogue with the "Mesh networking sucks, why don't you just give up?" critics).
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