Currently freenet can only send one message or piece of data in either direction on a connection at a time... with connection multiplexing, it can send several different messages over the same connection.
As you can imagine this helps a lot of overhead in connections and whatnot. --Brandon On Wed, 10/15/03 at 20:09:26 +0100, Simon Porter wrote: > If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is multiplexing and in what way > will it help freenet? > > Thanks, > > Simon > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:devl- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toad > > Sent: 15 October 2003 19:53 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [freenet-dev] Another Drastic Solution > > > > Suggestion: > > I implement multiplexing and test it on a local testbed of a few nodes. > > I don't implement any kind of backward compatibility. > > Followed by a larger testbed of a few volunteers' nodes. > > Followed by a network reset - wide deployment, without backward > > compatibility. > > -- > > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
