I started thinking about freenet and private (NAT:ed) networks. Mojo Nation uses a relay service so that client behind NAT-gateways can participate in the network. Since more and more hosts connects to the internet that way I think such capabilities in fred would be a "Good Thing"(tm).
My line of though: * Start with simply forwarding freenet packets: + option in fred forces clients and servlets to forward all requests to statically configured relay. + a new optional servlet listen for relay requests and opens a listening port. + Node adresses must be sent back and used by fred clients/servlets or translated in-stream by the relay. and then extend: * the relay could actively participate in the exchange, "caching" popular data the normal freenet way. * dynamic relay lookup * multistep relay configuration for complicated internal networks All could be implemented by subclassing some of fred classes and adding optional configuration entries with little impact on existing code. Comments? regards, -- G?ran Thyni Lule?, Sweden _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
