How to determine own IP

[Bryan Mongeau]

Michael Bauer wrote:

> Bryan Mongeau wrote:
> 
> > Michael Bauer wrote:
> > 
> > > [distributed network, PING and PONG]
> > 
> > Umm, I won't pretend to understand your entire protocol from this brief
> > description but I do applaud your attempt and your choice of programming
> > language. However, from what I understand, it sounds like your scheme
> > won't scale well with many users due to the high number of ping/pongs.
> > 
> > Learn from the mistakes of others:
> > http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/mirror/gnutella.html
> 
> Yeah, i already know this document. It actually does apply to our project
> but with a much lesser impact since we took some measures to reduce the
> amount of PING and PONG going through the network.
> Another problem with gnutella seems to be the shere number of search
> requests a user kicks off, while we produce network traffic rather seldom.
>  
> > Good luck and I apologize if this problem does not apply to your
> > protocol.
> 
> Thank you, i appreciated your reply :-)
> 
> Mike
> 

I'd be interested in learning more about your protocol and network. Do you 
have anything up yet? Docs would be nice... I say this because I think it's 
about time someone uses python for this application. Could be the killer 
app that propells python into the mainstream.

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Bryan Mongeau
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eEvolved Real-Time Technologies Inc.
http://www.eevolved.com
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