I don't know if this subject has come up before, if it has I'm sorry. I am so blessed from my school, that I live with a 10mbit switched ethernet at home. And so does everyone else who lives close to campus. Some lucky bastards even have 100mbit connections ;)
Say 20 - 30 of us are running Freenet nodes, it would make sense to have these nodes closely connected in a cluster, with just a few connetions going to nodes outside our net. That way I can rertieve cached data from my neighbour without having to go through a sheepfarmer in Australia. Is there any mechanism in Freenet now that prefers to conenct to close / fast nodes? It would be quite simple I think to scan nodeRefs for close IPs, eg your subnet. Or you could simply ping every node and trace the number of hops to each, and use that to find the closest nodes. I think this would boost performance a lot. -- | Are �rseth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
