Repository : ssh://git@diktynna/doc On branches: backup-redmine/2024-02-03,main
commit 1bc9510388e17e7b1ec42d1ef5bd225628969fad Author: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue Date: Thu Feb 1 08:19:08 2024 +0000
doc: open-mesh/OpenHarbors
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diff --git a/open-mesh/OpenHarbors.textile b/open-mesh/OpenHarbors.textile index 298e5ac1..0897468d 100644 --- a/open-mesh/OpenHarbors.textile +++ b/open-mesh/OpenHarbors.textile @@ -215,21 +215,21 @@ h3. Optional/additional/future Milestones/Ideas * Passpoint / Hotspot 2.0 compatibility * additional Layer 2 encapsulation method, which skips the IP/UDP/L2TP headers and uses a smaller, custom ethernet frame header - * allows login via: <username>@<mac-address-destination> +** allows login via: <username>@<mac-address-destination> -> useful to tunnel from one mesh node to another, within this layer 2 domain, without layer 3 routing involved * allow using node names for login: - * Gluon nodes only have an IPv6 address to be accesed. +** Gluon nodes only have an IPv6 address to be accesed. And (typically) no public DNS entry for this IPv6 address. Having a user to enter <login-name>@<mesh-node's-IPv6-address> won't be usable in practice for the gluon-openharbor-server package. Instead the hostname, which a Gluon mesh node owner can set in the Gluon config-mode and is then visible on a central map server, should be usable for a client - * option A) integrate mDNS? -> nicely decentral, but likely has too high protocol overhead - * option B) a small nsswitch module on the openharbor AP side +** option A) integrate mDNS? -> nicely decentral, but likely has too high protocol overhead +** option B) a small nsswitch module on the openharbor AP side which resolves a given @<node>.local (or similar TLD) via the nodes.json fetched from the map server - * option C) a cronjob which fetches node names from +** option C) a cronjob which fetches node names from the map server and populates /etc/hosts on the AP * MTU signaling compliant with "RFC:4459":https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4459 \ No newline at end of file