On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:30:49PM +0200, Costas Dokolas wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Niklas Bergh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:03 PM > > To: 'Discussion of development issues' > > Subject: RE: Re[2]: [freenet-dev] black hole report > > > > > > > - What could be the benefits of "routing-only" nodes? (i.e. > > > low storage space, assuming they are on very fast > > > connections) Perhaps extra anonymity for the network? > > > > A big problem here is that data still has to pass through the routing > > nodes.. Routing nodes has to update their routing table, right? And in > > order to update their routingtables correctly they have to verify any > > data sent from their routing destination nodes. Same problem > > as in path > > folding, there is a need for some kind of alternative verification > > method. > > I don't quite get it... > > You mean that we need to keep transient data in order to verify the CHK upon > d/l completion? (and then some more until the requesting node receives it, > of course)
You would have to keep a small store in any case, because the transfer rates at which you can send and receive will differ. > > If you mean that, I was under the impression that we use temp space for that > anyway. On the other hand, I'm not dismissing storage altogether, I only > mean that it could be a of a size enough for this kind of routing. In that > respect, we don't even need a store size limit, just a way to always delete > data after we're done forwarding it. > > Storage is needed anyway so that we keep the link to the supplying node (I > don't remember the name for that) for each CHK we've successfully transfered > (you know, so that we find it faster in the future). > > Doc > _______________________________________________ > 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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