On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:12:43PM -0500, Brandon Low wrote: > 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.
Most importantly: most of the time when freenet sends a file, it is transferring it from one node through this node to a third node. These transfers can get very slow. But also, freenet connections are very expensive to set up. > > --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 -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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