Re: how does swapping work?

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?

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