From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <4B29576E.8080206@linux-migration.net> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:55:58 -0600 From: Jon Roland MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <391345.99048.qm@web111612.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <200912092142.07700.onelektra@gmx.net> <375210.41936.qm@web111602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <200912111235.59060.onelektra@gmx.net> <4B291367.1050906@linux-migration.net> <20091216184344.GK29768@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20091216184344.GK29768@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] general theory question RE: dhcp on a peer only mesh Reply-To: jroland@linux-migration.net, The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andrew Lunn Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.net Exactly my point. If enough open mesh networks proliferate they will eventually all mesh with one another and if we don't have a way to cope with it, we will have a severe performance problem.

Our present financial crisis arose from the use by hedge fund managers of the Black-Sholes algorithm that promised its users that it would "hardly ever fail", but for which I showed if enough players used it, failure would be inevitable and disastrous.

We need solutions that can scale to any possible size.

On 12/16/2009 12:43 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:

So you are proposing a flat layer 2 network with billions of
nodes. What do you think will happen to performance when billions of
nodes receive every ARP broadcast?

-- Jon

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