MvdV>>> I don't see why anyone would want to run servers on a mobile MvdV>>> platform.
MvdV> I don't see why anyone would want to run a zoo on a mobile platform.
Look at the Ark of Noach, it is a big ship with all kind of animals ;-).
HD>> people who only live mobile, i.e. in a motorhome or ship and donot HD>> have a fixed home of wood and/or stone at land,
MvdV> That answers the question of "who". Not "why".
Also why, because they donot have a fixed connection. I.e. POTS, Central Antenna Cable and Fibre are impossible.
HD>> which I would liked to, but it seems to difficult to realy realise HD>> that at my age, at first financially ;-(.
MvdV> So for you it is a castle in the air. Forget it.
At first site yes, but you never know. It could be suddenly still possible. You never know. May be tomorrow I find a woman living on a ship, and we could have a click? Or a large sum of money is comming to my side from somewhere ;-).
MvdV>>> It is not practical. Better hire space at a hosting provider. MvdV>>> Much cheaper and far nore stable.
HD>> So I donot have to run a FidoNet station at home?
MvdV> It is not my cup of tea, for me the kick is running the server in my own MvdV> home on my own hardware. There are sysops however who hire space MvdV> (physical or virtual) in a data center and run their Fidonet system from MvdV> there.
The same here.
HD>>>> Has IPv6 a better solution for this fixed adress "problem", HD>>>> i.e. is there a fixed adress prossible,
MvdV>>> Yes, IPv6 has provisons for that.
HD>> So in that case it is interesting for mobile users.
MvdV> May be. I haven't heard much about it as yet...
I know Kees and you do have a fixed part at the IPv6 number that ends with the FidoNet Node number, right?
HD>> So I ones did the same with my old (2006) Siemens MC60 2G GSM/GPRS. HD>> 9600 bps indeed worked to get a connection with my own BBS at home, HD>> when I was at the computerclub in Rijswijk near The Hague with my GSM HD>> then.
MvdV> That is something different. You wre using the connection to read mail MvdV> as a USER. You did not run a server that could accept incoming calls.
Ok, that could be a try once?
HD>> I am now using my last and third version of that old type of GSM.
MvdV> I also had several, the last one died many years ago. I am no longer MvdV> interested in making data connections via 9600 bps GSM. Too slow, too MvdV> expensive...
Ok. Henri.
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