Er, I wasn't trying to claim that the system behaves more intelligently. The performance degradation is just an emergent consequence of gradually adding more no

Er, I wasn't trying to claim that the system behaves more intelligently. The performance degradation is just an emergent consequence of gradually adding more nodes to the routing tier. This post might be useful for some context: http://aphyr.com/posts/277-timelike-a-network-simulator http://aphyr.com/posts/277-timelike-a-network-simulator