MvdV>> I don't see why anyone would want to run servers on a mobile MvdV>> platform.
I don't see why anyone would want to run a zoo on a mobile platform.
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,
That answers the question of "who". Not "why".
HD> which I would liked to, but it seems to difficult to realy realise HD> that at my age, at first financially ;-(.
So for you it is a castle in the air. Forget it.
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?
It is not my cup of tea, for me the kick is running the server in my own home on my own hardware. There are sysops however who hire space (physical or virtual) in a data center and run their Fidonet system from there.
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.
May be. I haven't heard much about it as yet...
MvdV>> The details are beyond the topic of this conference.
MvdV>> Once there was a German mobile node runing on GSM. Search the MvdV>> nodelist archives for "Steigart's par GSM". It was a true node, MvdV>> it could be called and accepted calls up to 9600 bps IIRC. It MvdV>> did not last very long. Probably too expensive.
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.
That is something different. You wre using the connection to read mail as a USER. You did not run a server that could accept incoming calls.
HD> I am now using my last and third version of that old type of HD> GSM.
I also had several, the last one died many years ago. I am no longer interested in making data connections via 9600 bps GSM. Too slow, too expensive...
