The telepathy-salut connection works on the basis of Avahi (sometimes called Bonjour) Sometimes also called local-xmpp, and telepathy itself creates the connections by selecting the connection manager via Mission control through a dbus method called "RequestConnection" Salut is kind of an untrusted protocol,in that it doesnt require a password, like gabble does. Makes it great for ease of use for schools. For example, Guadalinex-edu has a small app that puts users into groups by creating local link Multi user chatrooms (teacher creates these) and students then join their relevant classroom from a selection of classrooms/subjects. The association to the MUC then allows for lots of cool telepathy/xmpp stuff, like transmission of configuration files, pause,play video/ausio files, switching on/off of certain software automatically, dtube remote control (teacher can powerdown laptops, lower voume remotely, lots of other remote control stuff) Dtubes are really quite awsome, we just haven't thought about all the possible uses yet.
Telepathy itself could use pretty much any connection manager, though the XOs are limited to using gabble when there is a jabber server present, and Salut if not. The actual mesh connection is done on a hardware level though and is totally unique to the XO as in no other laptop that I know of has working mesh network capable cards. I think maybe classmate has capable meshing on some level but its not really switched on. Unfortunately its meshing suffers from uncontrolled multicasting, which quickly saturates the the airwaves and brings down communication with 10+ laptops meshing. It's a cool concept though.... but realistically the implementation isn't all that great... not that I'm saying I could do any better at all :-) Just stating some observations... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > Cecilia Abalde wrote: >> I think I understood salut ytelepathy gabble telepathy. >> My question now is: >> to salut telepathy works there must be some established network? >> for example a mesh network or a wifi network > > Yes. All of the Telepathy protocols require that there be a working local > network connection. They operate on top of a network such as wired > ethernet, wifi, or mesh. > > Of course, the interesting thing about mesh networks (and also "ad hoc" > networks) is that they are very easy to create, because all you need are > the laptops. > > --Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Samuel Goldwyn - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel