talking with tom makes me think about this, and i apologize as i have yet to do appropriate research, what if to log into a node to access the mesh network you were required to open up a email like protocol similar to what you isp does. you can do it anonomously and it wouldn't be email, it would be a way to choose the type of alerts you will get and would communicate with your node directly so that the hardware attached to the router will send an alert to your piece of hardware; which could be anything from a pants button to a cell phone to a server cluster ... thinking out loud here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160826/a717e46b/attachment.html>