<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr">Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> Markus and me have been talking about adding some kind of emergency chat<br>
> plugin to the master branch... we already have the necessary telnet/http<br>
> server there, should not be difficult.<br>
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</div>Henning,<br>
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TCP/IP is a layered protocol suite. If your chat application depends on<br> a particular routing protocol, you're doing something wrong.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
</blockquote><div><br>we wheren't thinking about a standalone app *G<br></div><div>we were just thinking about extending the existing telnet cli of olsrd (which already features some interactive commands) by one or two chat commands (that would encapsulate chat messages into an olsrd-broadcast (-; and print out incoming) #0</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>it could be a chat consisting of only a couple of lines of additional code *G<br><br></div></div><div>while of course being far from an well-designed or fullfeatured chat. <br><br>it's more meant to allow admins (or some olsrd nodes itself) to push serious status messages into the mesh,..<br>
<br>or some e.g insane rooftop-warriors could type similar into a shell:<br>(sleep 300;echo "/chat send 'i was trying to recover one of my routers the last storm throwed to the slippy and steep NW edge of my roof, but i failed, please send an ambulance!'";sleep 1) | telnet 127.0.0.1 2006<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>#0 but as the olsrd http-server could export these commands aswell, one could build an html/js chat "app" on top of this aswell,..<br>(but this and the usefulness of the result is another story,..)<br>
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