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#74 lan support

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2004-07-14
2004-07-14
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What I'm hoping for would benefit a couple different
situations and requires two different features.

I have a lot of computers on a lan that would like to
share files and have virtually unlimited lan bandwidth but
little or no net bandwidth. I'd like to have one node that
can use both the local network and the internet, and
throttle its bandwidth usage differently for each
network. However the way things are set up I can't
force my lan nodes to not route all their mute traffic
over the internet, and I can't give the gateway different
priorities and traffic limits for nodes from the lan vs the
internet.

So what I'm hoping for requires two features.

One, a way to limit connections from my computers to
nodes within a specified ip range.

This may require being able to dictate that the nodes
pull their node list cache from a specific server on the
local network instead of from the default internet node
cache, as well as a way to actually limit acceptable
connection ranges in the program.

Two, a way to throttle bandwidth differently for the lan
and for the internet at large.

This way I could have one computer on the lan acting as
a gateway to the internet, and allows all the other
computers on the network access to all the mute nodes
on the internet, but to do so in a fashion that uses a
predictable amount of bandwidth. Also, any computer
that uses mute for both local and global file sharing
could allow users on the lan more bandwidth usage since
there is more to go around on the lan, and a lower
amount for the internet since there is less available.

Discussion

  • gabriel ramuglia

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    oh I suppose I should say why this change is important. Well
    other than the obvious making it more efficient to share files
    accross a business network or a campus network like at a
    school, in particular I would like to use this on a wireless
    freenet. In this situation, the nodes can connect to this fairly
    fast network for free, and there is a relatively large amount of
    free lan bandwidth, but few or none of the nodes will have
    internet access. Those that do have internet access, it costs
    $20 a gig here, so clearly it would be necessary to limit
    internet sharing in order to also use lan sharing, which
    wouldnt cost $/gig.

     
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