The PersonalTelcoProject has started picking up steam in moving from setting up one off hot-spots (starsucks style points of back-haul to the Internet(tm), only free rather than a t-mobile fee) and into the land of forming our own network of interconnectivity. To this end I present to the forkites Node236 , that being the WSMF Compounds point and pointed of presence. http://www.personaltelco.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Node236 Whats under the hood.. On the roof... a 12dbi omni with 3 deg down tilt mounted to a 10 foot pole attached to a very short bit of lmr400 into the ammo can of packet paradise. In the ammo can is a linksys befw11s4 turned down to bridging mode. These feeds into the house and attaches to the nodes three nic server Winston. Winston spots a Debian install and a tuned NoCat setup. One nic takes in the packets from the roof, the second nic takes a feed from a second linksys befw11s4 turned down to bridging for the use of the house and the third nice heads out to the DSL router, again tossed into bridging node. NoCat does most of the routing and rules work for traffic. So a day after raising the mast Portland gets hail, rain and power outing lightening hits. I'm sitting here at work pinging the box wondering if its just hung on reboot, if the power is still out, or if the chimney is smoking rubble. The plan for the node over the next week or so will be to tunnel it over the net into other PTP nodes probably over ipv6, maybe not. A constant vigil is up to find nodes going up that are in wireless reach such that we can start making true wireless links and relying less on the "Internet(tm)" to tunnel through. As with all growing networks content and services are key into making the value of use go up up up, WSMFs node will be offering up various goodies to the ptpnet over the next few weeks. Plans for a Palm centric file site (pd, os and other legal files only), old time radio shows both on demand and as files, various project repositories and a few other goodies will be on tap. Other PTP nodes are already working on cojoined resource sharing over our growing interconnectedness... http://www.personaltelco.net/static/node/content-nodes.html It is indeed a project I am digging doing not only in the doing but in the planning and the learning. Portland awaits the next ORiley gathering, by that time we should have a good coverage of goods and services all, of course, for the taking. No fees no pleas, just hit agree. -tomwsmf _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]