CAREDN Supernode Deployed
CAREDN Supernode Deployed
Good morning hand happy Sunday to all.
As of this morning, CAREDN is now on the new AREDN paradigm whereby there is a single network connection to the ‘outside world’, via KV3T-CHI-SUPERNODE. That means that when you go to the mesh screen of your CAREDN connected node, you will now see only nodes in our local network on your mesh screen. However, you will also a new option at the top of the screen called “cloud mesh”. When you click on this button, you will see all of the nodes from all over the world, just like before. Those nodes and services all over the world are still available and should work just like they did before, however now in a much more efficient way. This supernode paradigm allows the supernode to act as a single gateway to the outside world, that way all of the OSLR traffic within our Chicago network can be very concise and efficient, and only when you need to reach beyond our local network, does the larger network come into play. In an analogy with a home internet network, it is kind of like our Chicago network is all one big LAN, and my supernode is the gateway to the internet. Local LAN traffic will traverse the local Chicago network quickly and efficiently without accidentally routing across the world before going back to the node a few miles away (which was something that I observed happen previously). Now my supernode is keeping track of the rest of the world, and therefore the rest of the nodes on the network need not do so.
In order to keep this system working as intended, I would ask that other users NOT setup their own supernode. I know it is tempting because it says ‘super’ in the name, but having dual supernodes in a single ‘mesh island’ is not how the system is intended to work, and will cause issues with routing.
You can see the current supernodes deployed world wide (including ours) at the public mesh map at the following URL: https://arednmap.xojs.org/
If you are on the CAREDN mesh, you can see the local nodes at our local meshmap instance at the following domain: http://kv3t-meshmap.local.mesh/meshmap/webpage/
If you would like to learn more about supernodes, here are a few additional good reads about the concept behind supernodes, how they work, what problem them solve, and how they do so: