On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:59:28AM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > IMHO, it would be really useful for freenet to make semi-permanent > > connections like adsl/cable work better than they are now. > > A long time ago, we considered allowing nodes to tell other nodes when > they are most likely to be up. For each hour of the day, the node would > have a probability of up-ness, possibly this could be extended to every > day of the week (this could be represented as a 168 byte array). > > This would dramatically increase the usefulness of nodes which are, for > example, only online in the evening, or during waking hours.
Only if the routing table is so static that a node that is not used for eight hours will still be in the routing table. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-23.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/SoXdK~LeUIA/ ICTHUS.
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