[talk] nycmesh

[George Neville-Neil]

On 28 Aug 2018, at 12:49, Pete Wright wrote:

> On 8/28/18 7:34 AM, John C. Vernaleo wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Shawn Webb wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:20:05PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
>>>> this looks neat - anyone participating or have the skinny on this?
>>>>
>>>> https://nycmesh.net/
>>>
>>> I'd like to do the same thing for Baltimore, but backing it by
>>> anonymization networks like Tor. In order to become a supernode, 
>>> your
>>> node must reliably route all traffic through an anonymization 
>>> network.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Shawn Webb
>>> Cofounder and Security Engineer
>>> HardenedBSD
>>>
>>
>> It sounds like an interesting idea they have but I wish they weren't 
>> dependent on openwrt.  Unless things have changed a lot since I last 
>> used it, that was never very good on the stability, reliability, or 
>> updateability fronts.
>
>
> i noticed that as well last night - according to the faq the 
> supernodes are just using quagga and BGP which is obviously an ideal 
> candidate for OpenBSD or another BSD appliance:
>
> https://nycmesh.net/faq/#firmware
>
> i'm willing to bet they would be keen to get more of the BSD community 
> involved :)
>

I looked at signing up to be a node but it looks like downtown Brooklyn 
is too far from their two points.

Later,
George