[Olsr-users] OLSR in Android...a good idea? (and stuff)

[Robert Keyes]

Interesting you talk about IPv6. I've only worked in IPv4, but I am sure I 
could switch to IP6. One of the reasons I have stayed with IPv4 is I have 
an enormous amount of portable IPv4 space.

I have had this idea to run private tunnels from certain points on the net 
to a router which will then 'unwrap' the packets and send them to the 
public Internet, with the source address that I give them. The tunnel can 
and should be encrypted. Exactly where the tunnel end-user endpoint is, 
well we can figure that out depending on application. The other thing that 
can be done with these tunnels is to aggregate several upstreams. Now that 
I have FiOS it is quite so important to me, but before I had thought of 
aggregating my cable modem with my neighbor's DSL and get some serious 
throughput. Of course one of the other things that can be done with the 
tunneling I describe is to avoid censorship. My current endpoint is a 
rented server in the US, which has some advantage in content laws, but 
disadvantages in others (US protects political speech, but extends 
'intellectual property rights protection' much beyond other 
jurisdictions). I had considered getting a server in Iceland to have the 
most freedom, but they're not nearly ready...and since they've turned 
against Julian Assange, they may never be.

One of the things I'd like to see, though this may be present already, is 
a truely 'virtual' wifi device. That is, connect to any number of devices 
as a client, AP, or adhoc device, with different MAC addresses as chosen, 
perhaps on different channels at the same time (802.11b channels. Since 
802.11g already has a DSP capable of covering 3 802.11b channels, I figure 
it may be possible). This way, I could use muliple upstreams, aggregating 
them through my VPN Tunnel. It would also be really nice if all of these 
were automatically associated with, so as I am travelling, each open AP I 
come across is automatically used to set up a tunnel.

One of the other ideas I'd like to add is a virtual link of two mesh nodes 
through another node, particularly through an AP. Imagine that two mesh 
nodes can't see each other, and this causes mesh isolation as a result. 
But two nodes can see the same open AP...if they both associate with the 
AP, they can talk to each other and unite the meshes, without using any 
bit of the APs bandwidth. I've had some ideas on how you could do similar 
without even associating to the AP, in the case of WEP with an unknown 
key, but this might be just a little but too much hacking.

If you use any of my ideas, please attribute them to me. I may want to go 
after my master's degree and then perhaps doctorate and I'd love to write 
a thesis containing these ideas.

-Bob