Re: Thinking about ICP

At 20:02 02/08/97 +1000, Peter Marelas wrote:
>
>We currently have this problem at a National Exchange Point where we have
>many siblings querying each other over multiple WAN's.
>
>The idea I put forward was to "cluster" the siblings in groups of 8 like so:
>
>
> [ 8 cluser sibling ] [ 8 cluster sibling ]
> x x
> x x
> x x
> [ ICP relay ]
> x x
> x x
> x x
> [ 8 cluser sibling ] [ 8 cluster sibling ]

Isn't the current thinking to make the ICP relay a parent of the clusters,
with all the clusters as siblings? The parent wouldn't necesssarily have to
have any cache space for itself, it could just do the fetching from
neighbours and pass them back.

Jonathan L.

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Received on Mon Aug 04 1997 - 10:05:00 MDT