<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Quantity vs quality of partners- when nodes run on beat effort basis, they could go down at any time. On average, about 10% of my partners are down at any given time. It is also true that about 20% of them are rarely down, if ever.<div><br></div><div>I find the dynamic nodes list in N1MM quite useful as it shows 1/how often users connect to each cluster and 2/cluster availability as experienced by users. It confirms that there are too many clusters.<br><div><br></div><div>Rudy N2WQ</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent using a tiny keyboard. Please excuse brevity, typos, or inappropriate autocorrect.</span></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 3, 2024, at 2:27 AM, IZ2LSC via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>This topic is very close to what happened with BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) that is the routing protocol that manages all the internet routes (so very solid, well designed, scalable).<br clear="all"></div><div>If we want to do something more structured we can take inspiration from BGP introducing the concept of Autonomous System, Route Reflector and Confederations.</div><div><br></div><div>73</div><div><br></div><div>Andrea</div><div>iz2lsc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno lun 2 dic 2024 alle ore 22:13 Keith Maton via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Yeah, we have too many nodes and the nodes we have, have many more partners than they need. I’m as guilty of this as the next person.<div><br></div><div>If someone asks me to be a partner node, I find it very difficult to turn them down, in fact, I don’t think I’ve rejected anyones request. If they’ve gone out of their way to ask me, they must have a reason for it so I think it’d be rude to reject it. I do now insist that they connect to me rather than vice versa.</div><div><br></div><div>On the positive side it means we have a very robust system and huge chunks of it could fail but we’d all still get our spots, and we’d still get them quickly. </div><div><br></div><div>73 Keith</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 2 Dec 2024, at 17:59, Kin via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>*snip*</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div> <br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><b>Makes you think, doesn't it?<br></b><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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