Hi!

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 18:31 -0300, Breno Jacinto wrote:
[...]
>     Thanks for the information. That gives me an idea of how long
> would it take to converge the routes.
> 
>     But, then it may mean that 10% of that those routes are not
> up-to-date. See, I was wondering if a simple "ping <some ip>" would be
> a reliable mechanism to assure if an IP is available or not. But that

It is not. You could have nodes in the whole net you can never ping (for
whatever reason) but have hosts in between which can ping both of them.
So basically one absolutely needs to handle IP collisions in a reliable
and sane way.

>    By the way, in your funkfeur.net mesh, how are nodes joining the
> network? The configuration remains fully static?

The configuration is static - also because there are public IPs
involved. And there are ~ 480 routes ...

	Bernd
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