[Commotion-dev] Critical services

[Outback Dingo]

Well some decent COTS stuff like RouterStation/RouterStation Pro, Wili,
Soekris, etc... are cheap and solid

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Tim Yardley <yardley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed if we get x86 hardware or equiv, but we might be limited to flash on
> COTS routers.
>
> /tmy
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Peter Folk <peter at volo.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >> All of these sound like a good start.  The key is that localized
> >> "caching" is limited by the hardware that we have (storage, etc).
> >> With a flaky uplink, you want to be able to take an update and get it
> >> where it needs to go whenever you have connectivity to do so.
> > My guess is that the uplink from the gateway will be one of the most
> > stable components of this whole system; just very slow.  That said the
> > proxy I described is designed to help with flaky uplinks.
> >
> > RE storage caching, it seems to me that even with relatively old
> > hardware you can cache a lot: 10M would hold 10k compressed smtp
> > messages or a similar number of RSS feeds.  I'm not talking about
> > caching video, or even images, for the critical services.  That might be
> > a reason to have the critical services proxy run on some gateways and
> > the general http proxy run on others (so that it can use the max
> > resources for caching).
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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