[mesh-dev] distributed dhcp concept from german gluon mesh

[Marc Juul]

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:

> I received this from a gluon person (anonymized until they ok sharing of
> their name). Let me know if you're interested and neither your german nor
> google translate is good enough and I can write up a proper translation.
>
> ---- begin forwarded message
>
> in our gluon communities we distribute IPS via our gateways, where all
> nodes connect to the gateway to get internet through an anonVPN.
>
> But the developer of gluon is working at a new **distributed dhcp**:
>
> Prototype: https://github.com/tcatm
>
> thoughts:
> https://gist.github.com/tcatm/2dd0e6699f2a153505d0#file-ddhcpd-md
>
> then the nodes would give ip4 addresses to other nodes as long as none
> of them hasnt any connection to any gateway. as soon as node clouds
> connect they will reorder the IPS to delete doubles,...
>
>
There is apparently an implementation that's currently being tested:

  https://github.com/tcatm/pyddhcpd

This was sent to us by Ruben (rubo77) from Freifunk.

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marc/juul
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