On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:19:12PM +0200, Are wrote:
> 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.
That kind of thing has been discussed -- I think the de facto conclusion
right now is that there are more pressing issues to work on, but it would
be nice to work on it some day.
--
:: tavin cole ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ::
" ... there is a darkness. It is for everyone ... Only
some Greeks and admirers of theirs, in their liquid noon,
where the friendship of beauty to human things was perfect,
thought they were clearly divided from this darkness.
And these Greeks too were in it. But still they are the
admiration of the rest of the mud-sprung, famine-knifed,
street-pounding, war-rattled, difficult, painstaking,
kicked in the belly, grief and cartilage mankind, the
multitude, some under a coal-sucking Vesuvius of chaos
smoke, some inside a heaving Calcutta midnight, who very
well know where they are."
- Saul Bellow
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