[H-GEN] A humbug WAN

[Bruce Campbell]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Bruce Campbell <bc at thehub.com.au>)

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Rob Kearey wrote:

> Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 May 1999 excal at kermit.humbug.org.au wrote:
> 
> > > I think a little problem in using a packet radio network is depending on
> > > the location of some emember. ie.. they live in a ditch, they may not get
> > > line-of-sight to another reciever.  If we are using a lower frequency
> > > transciever this shouldnt be a problem at all.. Finding free public
>  
> > Yep, it is done with radio rather than microwave - lower bandwidth but
> > much better connection ability (ie, no line of sight req).
> 
> Also - you Can't Afford Decent Microwave. Trust me on this.

And don't forget, You Can't Get Decent Repeater Sites Easily.

> You /will/ be using encryption (swan &c), won't you?

If you have control over both ends of the microwave/radio, you can
effectively set up a secure tunnel (just have the link being private IPs,
and then vpn over that.)

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Bruce.


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