[guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

Paul Gardner-Stephen paul at servalproject.org
Thu Oct 9 14:43:27 EDT 2014


Hello,

My understanding is that this is special Wi-Fi Direct DNS, not general IP
traffic, which would basically imply some equivalent to ad-hoc Wi-Fi.  It
would be great if the latter were true, but I don't believe it is.

Paul.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
> If there is DNS communication, that means there is IP communication already
> setup.  Or is there some kind of special DNS for wifi direct?  If there is
> IP,
> then I think you'll get a lot more efficient data transfer using IP
> protocols
> like UDP broadcasts or multicast.
>
> .hc
>
> Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
> > Hello Nathan,
> >
> > Okay, this is a nice starting point.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Nathan of Guardian <
> > nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014, at 05:01 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
> >>
> >> This sounds very usable, especially since we could advertise multiple
> >> services.
> >> It would be great if someone is able to make a proof-of-concept for this
> >> to test the practical limits on Android.
> >>
> >>
> >> This appears to be working:
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh/blob/master/app/src/info/guardianproject/gilga/service/WifiController.java
> >>
> >> here is the log output:
> >> 10-09 10:30:06.647: D/GilgaWifi(14799): got status from wifi DNS:
> >> 96:d7:71:90:07:35 (_test._presence._tcp.local.) yygftu
> >>
> >> The detection of the record or querying for it seems a bit sporadic, so
> I
> >> am not sure if I am triggering the receive side properly, or how to
> >> manually force or refresh it.
> >>
> >> The only issue is that the user has to manually disconnect from wifi and
> >> set their wifi direct mode to visible. I haven't figured out how to
> trigger
> >> that state yet from an Intent, as we do with Bluetooth.
> >>
> >> +n
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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