[norswap]

Could someone clarify what the purpose of a meshnet is? Only encryption of all the contents? Or also hiding who talks to who? That last one seems quite difficult to achieve to me, in the presence of an attacker that permeates the network (the internet).

[hansjorg]

The main purpose is to have a network without depending on a central ISP.

A good example of a sizable meshnet is the Athens Wireless Metropolitan[1] network which has more than a thousand backbone nodes.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Ne...

[norswap]

Ah, I missed the point that this network would eschew the internet totally. I now realize that the top comment and even the excerpt say exactly that.

[16s]

No central control. Point to point. It's like amateur radio communication where two people can talk directly with each other radio to radio.

[gioele]

Isn't this the whole point behind Internet and IP?