RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] WiFi BBS

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

That makes me think of an interesting application of wireless. What if
you didn't connect your wireless to the Internet <GASP!>. :-) I guess
that's kind of what you were suggesting, but with the local population
density around Columbia, I can't see a single access point serving a lot
of people unless they are accessing it on purpose and there is somewhere
to hang out while they do it. It would probably work in Las Vegas, and
other areas with a higher population density.
I haven't seen the movie, but I heard about the minority report having
some kind of strange proximity advertising system and someone else came
up with a way to implement it in the real world. How about this. You set
your AP up connected to a server or two to create a local node with
little or no extra connectivity. People in your local area, (i.e. on the
wifi) can add and access content relevant to your node. More like a
bulletin board and less like the traditional BBS type systems. You may
even extend this to something like a war driving/Easter egg/geo caching
type thing. It might be bigger in the cities, but it struck me as an
interesting idea. Might even build some type of solar powered thing and
drop it off in the woods. :-)

By the way, I have heard of BBS's in the Internet age, but I can't
rightly figure out what differentiates them from a regular "group" based
web site. Is that all there is to them?

Also, Michael, you may want to consider some sort of MTU limitation on
your VPN. That's the biggest performance drag on something like that.
Putting a 1500 byte MTU on a packet encapsulated on a VPN that runs on a
network with a 1500 byte MTU really can drag down performance.



Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer -Specialist

MOREnet, Network Services, Core Network
3212 LeMone Industrial Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65201

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:09 PM
To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] WiFi BBS

Whenever I get the time I'm thinking of repurposing a computer as a WiFi

BBS for my area. Chat, file trading, games, etc. I was thinking it might

be interesting to make the system also available via VPN to others that 
might want to setup a WiFI AP for the BBS from whereever you might be 
at. Or maybe even set up the network such that you can access any site 
on the VPN as if it were on a LAN.. such that you could throw up your 
own website or whatever also. Have out own DNS and such and keep our 
network sepperate from the Internet. Just a little experiment in 
providing an alternate network. Anyone be interested in participating? 
On your end it'd require a wireless AP that could route traffic over a 
VPN. I'd just be using a Linux box but I imagine whatever you wanted to 
use, that supported those basic needs, would work.

I could have kavlon.wifi as my domain and everyone else could have their

own .wifi domain to. Could be fun. No .com's in sight. :)

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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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