Maybe the robot managed to get out of control... Merry Christmas, Don - ve3zda
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Steve L kb9mwr@gmail.com wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ As Brian said there is no central authority. The formula is based off your MAC address. From memory it simply does HEX to decimal conversion for each of the last 3 octets.
I found this:
http://bloodhound.aredn.org/products/AREDN/wiki/TechRef/GUI/admin/PerlUI_IP_...
The ham meshnet folks use net 10 internally; they assign the addresses by a formula. They don't have a central IP authority. I don't recall the exact formula and whether it's based on an encoding of the callsign or the location of the station, but it was explained in a paper they
published
in a past TAPR DCC, either 2013 or 2014.
- Brian
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