From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Oosthoek Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:53:28 +0200 Message-ID: <44758CA8.2030502@fastmail.fm> References: <44731733.7000204@ti-wmc.nl> <20060523094324.11926fcc@localhost.localdomain> <447349A6.50105@fastmail.fm> <1148496189.5325.33.camel@jzny2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl Return-path: Received: from smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.202]:11219 "EHLO smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965029AbWEYKxO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 06:53:14 -0400 To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1148496189.5325.33.camel@jzny2> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org jamal wrote: > Essentially you are extending the broadcast domain i.e a bridge within > on top of a bridge. I would question the scalability of such a beast > in the presence of many nodes. Also take a look at some of the work > Radia Perlman (who invented bridging really) is up to these days. > > Hi Jamal 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. 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. Cheers Simon