16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
6:43 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Jon Roland wrote:
Our design work needs to contemplate that a single mesh network will eventually span the planet (although it may need extra links to get from continent to continent)
Why? batman-adv works over wired as well as wireless links. Just use Ethernet over SONET, or what ever your fiber run under the oceans.
and involve billions of nodes. We are re-creating the Internet without trunk lines.
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?
Andrew