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If you run all of the processes on the turtlebot itself, you won't have any problems. It may be helpful to use gnu screen so your nodes don't die when the turtlebot loses its network connection and the SSH sessions disconnect.

Additionally, if the ROS_MASTER_URI is set to localhost, it does not matter if you actually have a network connection.

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