Wouldn't this tend to fragment the entire network though into clusters that were only interconnected with each other?
Greg On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:34 am, you wrote: > > > I'd rather have a stable, fast connection around half the globe, I > > > think, then a shaky, slow one to my neighbor. But maybe that's selfish > > > of me. > > > > If one would propose to establish a proximity metric for choosing > > ultrapeers, I would choose the ping latency as a metric, not the hops. > > Reducing the number of hops would reduce the processing load of network > devices (think at LAN administrators) and maybe the average bandwidth > consumption. > > I'm agree that the most efficient metric used to provide the best > quality to the servant is the ping latency. > > I think those 2 points could benefit to the Gnutella network. The first > point is good because user will have one more favor on choosing the > Gnutella network if Gnutella agents save the networks. The second point > is good for the global latency of a request. Indeed if each node choose > the other nodes with a smaller latency, then the global latency could be > improved. > > > J�r�me > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
