Re: Freemesh.ie - Bringing an equivalent to the german Freifunk Communities to Ireland.

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:52:37 UTC, Jonny McCullagh wrote:
>
> The IRC room appears to be down and I am interested but have a lot of 
> questions. Where is the local pick-up? Is there any point in me running a 
> single node in Newry or should I convince a few others to also add nodes? 
> Does only one node need access to the internet? Do users receive a message 
> if the bandwidth limit set is exceeded and there is no longer access? I am 
> responsible to my ISP for any dodgy traffic or is everything tunneled to 
> the your gateway?
> Apologies for all the questions but an FAQ on the website would be good. 
> And this is an interesting way to test IPv6.
> Cheers,
> jonny
>
>
Hi Jonny, 
i'm based in Athlone, so primarily will be here. In the next few weeks, a 
few routers will be dropped to Galway and Dublin, where I'll arrange with 
somebody, that they can be picked up locally.

And yes, there's a point in you running a single node in Newry. Everything 
has to start somewhere. And if that node has internet access and you share 
a little of that, it will actually connect to the other nodes via one of 
the gateways.

Then again .. no .. you can set up a node without internet access, but it 
won't be working correctly then. You'll get an IPv6 address of it alright, 
but no routes, as they come from the gateway. At least one node in every 
cloud has to have internet. When you set the router up, you can throttle 
how much internet you're willing to share though.

There is no bandwidth limits within the Freemesh network .. it's free ... 
it's non-commercial .. it's up to you. The gateway won't run itself of 
course, but I'm looking after that for now and the donations for the 
routers should fund it for a while. I've put a bit of a "join Us" section 
together today, that may answer a lot of your 
questions: http://www.freemesh.ie/join-us/

And no .. you are not responsible for dodgy traffic on your node .. it's 
all tunneled of to the gateway and the provider, our gateway is hosted with 
is .. well .. quite ignorant to certain types of email complaints. I know 
this, because it's me :)

As for the FAQ .. yes .. that will evolve in time .. but if you look at the 
current website, wiki, map, gateways, image builds .. i've put all of that 
together in the last week .. on my own ... so no .. it's not quite complete 
yet. And it's meant to be a community effort anyhow in the long run. But 
it's a start.

Interesting way to test IPv6 is correct. Most of the german Freifunk 
networks are mainly used for either anonymity or for being able to torrent 
at all without getting nasty letters. And while we're not filtering 
torrents, it's not the sort of traffic, I'd like to attract too much of. 
That and the fact, that I've always been at the front of trying to get 
people to start using IPv6 made me take the decision, that he irish 
freemesh network simply won't do IPv4. Most devices are actually fine with 
that. A NAT64 gateway and NAT64 DNS helper are in place, so we're not 
cutting us off from the IPv4 only part of the internet.

/M
 

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