I started pondering recently over distributed networking, which is obviously being achieved by Freenet, but I was thinking more along the lines of Hardware. The network architecture here at school is Ethernet, with hubs and servers and a backbone and stuff. I asked my teacher if it would be possible to connect a bunch of computers toghether with Ethernet without useing any central servers. He said that it could be done, but I would have to use a hub. This all seems fine to me, each computer would be a server AND a client, but it doesn't have any really good qualities to it without Freenet that I can see. Then I got to thinking about the NICs that are in our computers. They seem to be constantly recieving data even when the OS hasn't loaded any drivers for working with the NIC. I asked one of my teachers about it and didn't get a very satisfactory explanation. Anyway, if the entire workgroup, or entire room, or whatever, of computers is recieving ALL data traffic to and from computers in that room, or workgroup, or whatever, then that seems like an awful waste of energy and time and stuff. Couldn't we have routers that directly connect two computers together for direct communication, instead of this broadcasting? Anyway, I am very excited about all the things I am learning here at High Tech Institute and I can't wait to get into Linux/Unix. :)
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