On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Kevin Atkinson: > > Although I didn't say it before I envision my network working by nodes in > > constant communication with each other so that every node has a good idea > > of what's on the network. My original implementation will be based on > > every node knowing what's own every other node. After I get that working > > I plan on adding fancy routing so that nodes won't actually store the > > contents of every other node but will be able to know which nodes to > > content in order to find a particular key. They were be lots of redundancy > > in the routing so that the network will continue to function even if parts > > of it go down. > > Any broadcast is dangerously expensive. Even if they are only > necessary when a new node joins the network, the cost could be > significant.
I don't plan on really using broadcast per say. Instead each node will only talk to selected other nodes. The amount of bandwidth used should not be that large as the information sent would be small. I image most of it will be nodes information other nodes about changes in there datastore. --- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
