On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Jon Roland wrote:
> Our design work needs to contemplate that a single mesh network will
> eventually span the planet (although it may need extra links to get from
> continent to continent)
Why? batman-adv works over wired as well as wireless links. Just use
Ethernet over SONET, or what ever your fiber run under the oceans.
> and involve billions of nodes. We are
> re-creating the Internet without trunk lines.
So you are proposing a flat layer 2 network with billions of
nodes. What do you think will happen to performance when billions of
nodes receive every ARP broadcast?
Andrew
