Post #2805491

2026-03-01 14:12 UTC

@py2toz@mastodon.radio Well, what about plain old IP protocol? It does not depend on the media (there are wifi, ethernet, fiber, microwave...) and it can do dynamic routing (we use it every day in the form of BGP, but others are possible). Even the old HAM packet radio supports IP over AX25 over HF or VHF / UHF.

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@py2toz@mastodon.radio 2026-03-01 14:39

@marsik@witter.cz That's a fair point. But as far as I can tell, Reticulum goes a step further by implementing cryptography at the network layer by default. Not to mention the multiple encapsulation every time we traverse different interfaces (LoRa then IP then serial then LoRa again...) So it's a matter of taste and use cases, as always (hence the "something similar" in my original post).

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@DLC@mstdn.social 2026-03-05 15:12

@marsik@witter.cz @py2toz@mastodon.radio How would you self-assign a global routable IP address that you can take with you wherever you go? The beauty of reticulum is that it just works without complicated manual configuration, bureaucracy, policy, etc… See also https://mstdn.social/deck/@DLC/115102156573841828

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