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Isn't this just normal packet networking but with big packets and no timeouts?

• yebyen 10y ago
  Store-and-forward is an idea at least as old as Usenet. This also reminds me of the way that `%ames` networking in Urbit works. There is more to it than you say, you may want pub-sub from the beginning and features like exponential back-off, without a source to cite I'd say I think intuitively some of these things are likely to be missing from regular packet networking implementations.
• justinsaccount 10y ago
  No, because routers do not retransmit packets, only hosts. if you had something like earth -> sat -> sat -> mars and the equipment on mars is temporarily unreachable, you don't want to have to repeatedly retransmit earth -> sat -> sat since that takes between 4 and 24 minutes end-to-end. You want the data to store on the remote sat until it can be forwarded to mars.
  • surge 10y ago
    That switch better have one helluva buffer.