it wouldn't have to be anon i just assume that is a concern to people. granted i have a limited understanding of mesh, but that doesn't mean that it can't be imagined in a different light. the general idea is when you hook up and are given an ip address you could be given alerts. how you get these alerts and whether or not there is hardware on the node/router unit in your home is what the question is. lets say the sirens go off, yes the air raid sirens are our alert system out here, and the fire dept volunteers are up and running. lets say the sirens are out due to power loss. the fireman have a node and it alerts them according to the sign in they used that had required them to choose which alerts to get or whether or not to get them at all. teacher is at school and ships out homework. a child at home receives alerts due to the sign in system which makes you choose which alerts to receive or whether to receive them at all. the city has a meeting and someone wants to watch but doesn't want the city hall people to know for whatever reason; idk there could be a reason to be anonomous. i am so busy right now that i am not doing my due diligence but i don't want to forget a good idea or sit and think about a good idea when it is in reality not a good idea. as i wrap my head around this i realize that there is nothing written in stone, not all ideas are going to work, and that there is still much for me to learn. School talk is taking most of my time right now. and this clover pos system. i did security research on it for a business out here. while i was trying to learn about it their website went down. i am like wow they can't handle html but they are providing a secure pos system? but mostly the school talk is my focus for the next week here. i will offer more sound (but still odd) ideas in the near future. On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:02:53PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > > MESH networks do not have AP capabilities. They are nodes that are > designed to allow for self-healing and then, from there, you have your APs. > That’s the proper design, anything more complicated would probably either > fail in a short period of time or be very overwhelmed. > > > > What this person said. > > There is no need for anyone to have any more accounts... This is purely an > access mechanism that is "self healing" (in lack of a better phrase). And > there can certainly be limits that are put on access so that abuse is kept > to a minimum. > > Accounts go with account/service providers. Use "twitter" for example and > have the mesh be a medium. No? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160827/0a311a22/attachment.html>