From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:38:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1148571510.5283.33.camel@jzny2> References: <44731733.7000204@ti-wmc.nl> <20060523094324.11926fcc@localhost.localdomain> <447349A6.50105@fastmail.fm> <1148496189.5325.33.camel@jzny2> <44758CA8.2030502@fastmail.fm> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl, Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:37564 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030227AbWEYPid (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:38:33 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx02.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FjHv2-0005SR-L0 for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 11:38:36 -0400 To: Simon Oosthoek In-Reply-To: <44758CA8.2030502@fastmail.fm> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 12:53 +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > > I agree with your analysis, and recently I read an interesting interview > with her (I think it was linked from slashdot, an interview with the > "mother of the Internet ;-) I'm not sure her work (I don't exactly > recall the specifics) is applicable to our problem though. > Look at her effort ion rbridges, i think youll find theres a lot in common. > Regarding the scalability, I think it rather depends on the number of > hops how usable FLAME is. I don't think it would scale well to a campus > or city wide network, but in the case of a few mobile nodes, it has very > little overhead both in bandwidth and delay. You should mention this limitation in the paper. BTW, something else: You ability to create loops of broadcast storms is highly probable. Eventually you may have to go to L3 (TTL is of value there) ;-> cheers, jamal