I saw video demo of Reticulum showing the different transports it cpuld use. Meshtastic was the only one they showed that was not IP based. All the others were Ethernet, 802.11, I2P, and other internet protocols. Meshtastic was the only layer that was an off-grid technology.

If you can point me to any long range protocol that reticulum can use, I'd love to be wrong about this.

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The way I understand it #reticulum isn't built on and doesn't use #meshtastic but can use #LoRa in addition to other methods while meshtastic only uses LoRa.

Disclaimer: this is a gross oversimplification.

Yeah, it looks like I was mistaken. The video must have said LoRa and my brain thought of Meshtastic because I've used raw LoRa packets, LoRaWAN, and Meshtastic and Meshtastic absolutely blows the other two out of the water in terms of range and reliability.

That makes me wonder, if Reticulum really wants to use all these different transports, why **don't** they support Meshtastic in addition to LoRa?

You could write your own transport. It is in Python and then get that to work if you wanted to.