[WLANware] GSoC 2010: Project IP/UDP encapsulation Kernel module

[ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)]

> In routing terms, how that improvement will work inside the mesh network?

this is very specific of the "wireless community" setups, where
uplinks are "home ADSL" from different providers. The network is on a
private IPv4 and every ADSL router makes NAT with a different public
IPv4.

to aggregate bandwidth of the various lines the only dirty hack is to
send ALL the traffic to a fast server and from there connect to the
Internet with a single IP address for the all mesh network.

you need UDP tunnels for this, because IP-IP tunnels will not pass all
the NAT of the ADSL routers and some firewalls block weird protocols
in the Internet.

this is the solution to a specific problem, not a improvement in terms
of routing.

Saverio