Re: how does swapping work?
Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
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On Friday 22 February 2008 17:07, Pete Heist wrote: > I'm looking for a basic explanation of how the swapping of the locations of > two nodes works (details aside, as it seems the implementation may still be > in flux?) > > I'm confused as to how nodes can swap locations in the network without > either changing the nodes they're connected to or changing their IDs (which > would be a security problem in the first case or a routing complication in > the second)...but I may just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the > 0.7 routing works... A node's "location" is simply a number between 0 and 1. We route requests towards the location closest to the content we are trying to find. Does that clarify things a bit? _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
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