>From the top of my head, i'd say yes, because like most peoples brains, large numbers look dazzling. It would certainly be an impressive achievement to reach the limit of 4.294.967.296 nodes. But normal IP addresses of 256*256*256*256 == 2^32 too) has reached its limits too. Knowing that there's almost 7 trillion people alive right now, would be reason to say no, and knowing that networking will go into more and more devices (computers, phones, e-readers, watches, etcetera), makes me worried about 2^32.
Is there anybody familiar enough with the code to explain what (if anything) keeps us from taking an even more insanely large number, like 2^34 (okay, i know that looks stupid) or 2^48, or 2^64? gr - bart On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:25 AM, claudio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > short presentation: my name is Claudio, from Rome (Italy); I met netsukuku > looking for projects that propose Internet alternative. > > I'd like to understand better some aspect. I hope that this is the right > place where to ask technical questions. > > First question: > > if netsukuku goal is "handle together an ad-hoc network even bigger than > the Internet", do you think that 2^32 is enough? > > Thank you > Claudio > > > -- > This story begins on August 8, 1970, and ends eighteen days later, on > August 26 of the same year. > > _______________________________________________ > Netsukuku mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku > >
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