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On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:17 AM, John Chambers <[hidden email]> wrote: > In particular, the mesh idea seems like it should be useful, but it's > not very useful if your mesh has only one computer. I wonder if > there's a way to build something like a VPN tunnel to connect several > meshes that are some distance apart. (We got a second one, but it's > in the hands of a grandson out in San Diego. It'd be nice if the two > OLPCs could collaborate on something ... ;-) Actually, the solution is to not use VPNs, but instead to switch to using server based networking. Mesh networking is builtin in so if you don't have infrastructure things still work, this doesn't mean that infrastructure isn't useful (better). This page is a good place to start: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jabber_server If you don't want to run your own (private) server, there are some public servers set up for this. The OLPC_Boston user group page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Boston has info about a public New England servers. Have fun, Bill Bogstad -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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