[consume-thenet] LocustWorld Mesh Explained. (fwd)

The LocustWorld mesh node author has posted to consume, with some useful 
tech background.

I was mostly correct to my initial assessment.  However, I didn't realise 
that he uses ADOV routing, so "chaining" repeaters is possible.  My other 
points still hold:

> What are the limitations?
>
> Anyone with a similar level of technical understanding of the issues, 
will
> immediately have some questions about limitations and look at the 
currently
> provided solution and perhaps feel it is incomplete or will fall over. In
> this respect they'd be absolutely correct.
>
> There are a number of limitations, not with the theory, but with the
> current  implementation which leave room for improvement. For example,
> there is no  deadlock avoidance with address allocation, there is no
> cryptographic  registration of nodes and no authentication between node
> communications. It  is possible to spoof the routing protocol and 
generally
> harass the network

I still recommend OpenAP over this, as I can't see how he is intending to 
resolve the out-standing (in both senses of the word) problems.

Josh Howlett, Networking and Digital Communications Group,
Information Systems & Computing, University of Bristol.
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