I think the question is whether udp broadcast is supported by the mesh firmware or by openwrt by default so that users of patchwork can identify and address one another on the people's open net.
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From: "Marc Juul" <juul@labitat.dk>
To: "Lesley Bell" <lbx2045@gmail.com>
Cc: "mesh@lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh@lists.sudoroom.org>
Subject: [Mesh] How would patchwork work with mesh?
Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 5:26 AM

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Lesley Bell <lbx2045@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Many of you are familiar with *patchwork
> <https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork>,* Dominic Tarr's distributed
> messaging app. We have been talking about different apps that could run
> directly over the mesh, and I believe patchwork can do so as it is now--if
> you are on the same local network as another user, you can talk to them
> even if you are not connected to an external ISP, and you can see who is on
> the same network as you are.
>
> I have asked a few people, and can't get a certain answer to the question
> of, can messages be passed with patchwork over the whole mesh, or only
> those connected to a particular node? Patchwork uses encrypted message
> passing over TCP/IP, so I think it should work that way...can anyone on
> here confirm/deny/elaborate?
>

I'm not sure I understand the question. The mesh is just like the internet
except we don't have world-routable IPs. Every node is behind NAT (until we
get an IPv6 allocation). Are you talking about SSB nodes or mesh nodes? Are
you asking a question about the mesh or about how SSB operates? or about
how SSB operates on the mesh and how that's different from how it operates
on the normal internet?

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marc/juul