On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Brandon wrote: > But I think that a udp/multicast module will be very nice and useful and > popular. It will probably be quite a bit faster. I'm not sure if it should > eventually be distributed as part of Freenet proper or as a separate > module. Certainly all of the transport mechanisms _could_ be separate > modules. I think in the end we'll probably include both TCP and UDP as > standard, for people with different tastes. SSL, modem, diskette, > etc. will probably always be separate modules.
I don't know much about multicasting, but I don't see what it's purpose would be for Freenet. As I understand it, it allows many servers to listen to the same address, but what possible good would having many servers serving the same request at the same time do? The only use I can think of is trying to make the network more anonymous by using multicast for all sends and spoofing the source ip, and then using a Public Key to address the particular node the message was meant for, but this seems obscure and far off... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
