> It'd be simpler just to develop some kind of relay software then hack > this into the node proper, imho.
Quite possibly. I think about this. On a first intuition, I think you're probably right. > What impacts does it have on network bandwidth? Shadow node's route all the messages for the nodes they shadow. So they supply all the bandwidth between those nodes and the network. So shadowed nodes don't add any bandwidth to the network at all, just storage space. This is, however, the only way that nodes behind totalitarian firewalls can participate. I think that adding storage space to the network is better than doing nothing at all. Also, shadowed nodes cannot be considered leeches on the nodes that shadow them as this is entirely opt-in for the nodes that choose to participate. Most likely you would set up your own shadowing node on a machine you administered and shadow for some people you liked. One potential use would be to turn all of the machines on your local network into nodes whereas previously you could only have the gateway machine be a node. This is better than running a transient node because you can still extend the capacity of the network by offering hard drive space. It could mean substantially larger storage capacity consider the number of computer that have fat connections but are IP masqueraded so all of their traffic is passing through a single machine already. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Sun May 6 15:04:33 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA15065 for <danello at danky.com>; Thu, 3 May 2001 02:57:37 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A585812E; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from moe.cc.utexas.edu (moe.cc.utexas.edu [128.83.42.2]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D755E58176 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (blanu at localhost) by moe.cc.utexas.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/cc-uts-client-1.11) with ESMTP id CAA28346 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Thu, 3 May 2001 02:32:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: moe.cc.utexas.edu: blanu owned process doing -bs From: Brandon <[email protected]> X-X-Sender: <blanu at moe.cc.utexas.edu> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet In-Reply-To: <20010503032151.S17631 at niss> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0105030230080.18651-100000 at moe.cc.utexas.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: devl-admin at freenetproject.org Errors-To: devl-admin at freenetproject.org X-BeenThere: devl at freenetproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.3 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: devl at freenetproject.org List-Help: <mailto:devl-request at freenetproject.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:devl at freenetproject.org> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl>,
