Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (887 mails)

[Steven L Hess <SHESS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/30/2011 02:24 PM, John Andersen wrote:
> On 1/30/2011 1:46 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
>   
> > In the light of the Egyptian Inet turn off and the threats that other govs 
> > either have or are lokking into such abilities do we have something along 
> > the 
> > lines  of     Daihinia  or can we setup our boxes to behave like that ie a 
> > mesh network  .
> >
> > Could be usefull 
> >
> > Pete .
> >
> >     
> I could make the case that for Civil Defense purposes ALL routers should fall
> back to mesh network mode IMMEDIATELY upon failure of their primary WAN 
> connection.
> It should be baked into the routers firmware, testable by simply unplugging 
> the
> network feed.  It should be required by law.
>
> Yes, I dream.
>
> Failing that, you might find a package to do this (somehow) but it is a
> function that belongs in the router.
>
>   

We should start agitating for this functionality. I am highly supportive
of this.

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