James B. DiGriz wrote: > In terms of practical considerations, network diameter is 3, and minimum > connectivity is 8 (if you count routes with common links) at the 3 hop > level, which you'd probably want to use, with a fallback to longer > routes on retries. Unless you're trying to discourage tracing or > something.) It's a highly redundant, fault-tolerant network, and you're > also right that duplicates aren't going to be a problem. However, there > are only 297,000 links (if I'm counting right) among the 1 million > nodes, and they're probably going to get saturated real quick. >
Wups, dropped a zero there. *cough* For my next trick I will show how inertialess drives work and provide free lunch for everyone :-) I meant 2,970,000 links, obviously. Not as bad as it looked. It's still subject to saturation, but it begins to look like something interesting. jbdigriz