Post TU Comms and Networking

[River Song]

LS < RS

You said.

Quote:So the idea is to create a peer to peer local network. Will the system you are considering pass messages on from one network user to another, until it reaches its correct destination? Kind of e-mail without internet???

Kind of.
If you picture the following.
Three houses side by side. Each house has a laptop running the software over its own wifi.
The three units would 'see' each other and would form a 'mesh'.

Even if only one of the units had internet access, users who accessed ANY of the units would have access to the internet.

So far so good.

Now consider no internet. All you have are the three units. However although there are (at present) no email facilities, there is an IRC chat and common notepad-like and if you create a document it is shared

I want to see this extended over wide areas and the 'next step' is to try and link these 'meshes' together in some way. (That's phase 2).

At present my task today is to try and get this up and running on a Raspberry Pi so that its a kind of blackbox that could be handed to NR and SS and say 'run with is'.

It cannot at present make coffee or shoot socialists !!