(01-20-2016, 01:57 PM)Apuly Wrote: So... your switches route...
Doesn't that mean your witches are routers?
And I'm assuming that your routers are routers as well.
So your LAN only consists of routers?
sounds like a stupid lan to me.
Also, I don't fucking remember allowing you to put wires under my plot.
If I find any at any point in time, expect intorenet to receive quite a bit of gibberish.
Ehm, maybe... you see they don't really route - all they know is what THEY have to do with the packet. One switch would not know the 'next step' after it sends it - only what that specific switch has to deal with. I guess this means it's not a router. The thing that calculates which routes are best is intOREnet itself - when a new LAN is connected, it broadcasts it's desired address. If it's taken, nothing happens. If it is not, the switch that receives it writes the source direction in the corresponding location in memory for that specific address. It then resends the 'assignment packet' in every direction. A switch only writes the direction from which it came from first, and if alternate, slower routes reach it, it discards it and does nothing.
The LANs will probably be built using a system similar to Magic's switches, in a tree structure, but of course you can directly plug your device into the thingy that sends stuff to the intOREnet switches (some kind of small LAN switch with a teeny amount of memory for local addresses) for optimal low latency.
Also you must've said I could use at some point, or I wouldn't have made it like that. But if you're no longer OK with this then I can remove you from it.
Actually now I remember, I asked if I could run a wire along the very edge of your plot so I could reach NT, in the hopes jall and embi would agree too. They both said no so I guess I won't be needing your plot anyway, I've changed it to red now, is that OK?