I have a feeling that the capability of participating in up to four activities over a simple mesh scenario (no school server present) seems good enough. But I may be wrong and we certainly don't have enough (if any) user input to validate this (or not).
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ricardo Carrano wrote: > | Assuming this is correct, than some questions follow. > | - Is 4 a reasonable limit (is the XO capable of more in terms of > processing > | and memory?) > > The XO is definitely capable of more, especially for activities like Chat > that require minimal CPU/RAM and are usually silent on the network. > > | - Is this a hard limit? How hard is to increase this number and what is > the > | compromise? > > I have an additional question: > Could the firmware allow the driver to designate one or more of those > slots as a trivial bitwise filter? This would allow the driver to > subscribe to one or more ranges of multicast addresses. It would also > provide graceful degradation if there are too many multicast addresses to > fit: the surplus addresses can just be OR'd together into a filter. There > will be some false positives that will have to be screened out by the > driver, but perhaps not too many. > > - --Ben > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIB9GAUJT6e6HFtqQRAu8kAKCXPHKqWLm5Rk2pimt8+yg3sW/VKgCfTTjn > eqzgVrWnAxfJ9wmOvkbMWzI= > =h0XZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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