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A meshlocal experiment.
Formerly known as Janmesh project which started in 2015.
What is a meshlocal
What are the benefits
Overlay networks
Meshlocal routers requirements and setup
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What are the benefits
Meshlocals offer many advantages compared to usual and ordinary internet-style networks, talking about resiliency, robustness and security.
Resiliency
Such networks are scalable and run from the close neighbour range up to the global scale. In case of severe crisis, they allow to maintain an emergency communication infrastructure even if the centralized ordinary internet is unreachable due to some outtage. Thank to the citizen-to-citizen approach of the mesh infrastructure, they are also really resistant to central censorship, surveillance, and, are close to be untakedownable.
Robustness
The mesh routing constantly and efficiently routes data from node to node, and any route can be recalculed whenever needed to make sure communicating devices' users can rely on the network medium.
Security
The approach of meshlocal setups involves to enable overlay networks, like Yggdrasil, on them. With near-to-zero configuration, any client device, like a computer, in the home LAN, can then also use Yggdrasil to authenticate and to secure its communication with the help of crypographic adressing and transmissions. Then, any machine will forever be known by an Yggdrasil IPv6 Address that will stay forever the same and can be transfered someday to a future machine when the need is here. This address can be used for numerous purpose, like to send files, or text messages, or pass voice/video calls with some VoIP software that has the ability to work directly over an IP adress.
What is a meshlocal
What are the benefits
Overlay networks
Meshlocal routers requirements and setup
Chat
Contact: mesh@clewn.org
Shop?