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How can I prove that the mesh is operating and that other nodes are acceding to and seceding from the mesh?

Associate a client of some kind, like another laptop or a smartphone, with the mesh. Ping it. Try to browse it. Plug the mesh node into a hardline and try to browse the Net with the client. Look at the network configuration of the client (IP address, DNSes, default gateway).

I would like to see some window that lists the nodes within range.

Open a feature request at Github so it's on our radar. It'll get lost in the mailing list archives.

I would like to do something on one computer that I can see mirrored on another computer within the mesh.

Put multiple clients on the mesh. Run a web server on one (like XAMP) and try to browse it. There is nothing preventing clients from interacting with one another directly.

At this stage of development, I want to test the internal operation of the mesh before connecting it to the Internet via a gateway.

Ping? Traceroute? tcpdump?

From the casual user perspective it isn't obvious what Byzantium is doing or offering.

Did you look at the release notes (/RELEASE_NOTES.txt) or the Github page (https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/blob/master/README.md)? "THIS IS ALSO A VERY SPECIAL RELEASE! We built this release in the days following Hurricane Sandy and deployed it in New York City. We've streamlined it a lot..." We built this release when we were in New York to serve a specific purpose: infrastructure. The community's goal was to restore connectivity and not specific services, so we removed a lot of things from this release to facilitate that. We took some features out - this helped us make layers 1-4 of the OSI model as robust as we possibly could while in the field. This release is meant to maintain momentum, and now that we have a robust platform to build on we can start adding things back at the higher layers in v0.4a. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Don't try to talk me out of it, Billy, we're going bowling!" - --Stetmeyer, _Misfits of Science_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEJV18ACgkQO9j/K4B7F8GtTACgwrPFxb4YROwxslL0mW3aq6TK kboAn05L8eeepovZA/Up0kvEZvpXy+0k =eaby -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Byzantium (Emergency Mesh Networking)" group. To post to this group, send email to Byzantium@hacdc.org. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Byzantium+unsubscribe@hacdc.org. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/hacdc.org/group/Byzantium/?hl=en. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE