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On 12 Apr 2006, at 10:59, Michael Rogers wrote: > I'm not sure congestion control should be done end-to-end in Freenet. > Instead, each node's traffic should be limited by its immediate > neighbours, and each node should route around its overloaded > neighbours. We have tried this before in Freenet, basically the effect is that routing degrades because nodes can't route to their first preference, leading to greater load in the network because messages need to pass through more nodes to get to their destination, leading to a catastrophic failure where all nodes are overloaded. Ian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEPVlfQtgxRWSmsqwRArlqAJ0Qqmk7z8JwKND3bD+bUcm2gpNy/ACcDpJM //CjjUjhb7Xzl/xLHpGYA8c= =BN71 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
