Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-26 Thread Oskar Sandberg
The problem is that this changes the expected time to reply, which means that it is a protocol change since it will result in nodes being angry at each other for no reason should one have implemented it and not the other. I do agree that we need to move this up to the top of the list though (I mu

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-25 Thread Brandon
> Yes, but setting it to high will increase traffic. A setting of 0.5 means > that half of the hops on a route will not decrease HTL, meaning a 15 hop > request would on average take 22 hops. The way to do it is make the > probability increase as the htl decreases. At HTL 1, you have a 0.5 > p

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-25 Thread Brandon
> Of course significant changes should generally not be made before a > release, but common sense should also be applied. Adding a small > probability that a HTL will not be decremented is very straight-forward > and doesn't really leave much room for bugs. You can't release untested code! We m

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-25 Thread Scott G. Miller
Yes, but setting it to high will increase traffic. A setting of 0.5 means that half of the hops on a route will not decrease HTL, meaning a 15 hop request would on average take 22 hops. The way to do it is make the probability increase as the htl decreases. At HTL 1, you have a 0.5 probability,

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-25 Thread Scott G. Miller
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:39:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 09:24:46AM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:53:12AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:36:34AM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-25 Thread tavin
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 09:24:46AM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:53:12AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:36:34AM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:16:55PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > > > While I agree that this i

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-25 Thread Travis Bemann
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:53:12AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:36:34AM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:16:55PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > > While I agree that this is a high priority, you can't make a change like > > > > that right befo

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-24 Thread Scott G. Miller
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:36:34AM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:16:55PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > While I agree that this is a high priority, you can't make a change like > > > that right before a release. The process is add features, test features, > > > fix bugs,

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-24 Thread Scott G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:16:55PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > While I agree that this is a high priority, you can't make a change like > > that right before a release. The process is add features, test features, > > fix bugs, test more, release. We should just release now and then add it > > and

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-24 Thread Travis Bemann
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:16:55PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > While I agree that this is a high priority, you can't make a change like > > that right before a release. The process is add features, test features, > > fix bugs, test more, release. We should just release now and then add it > > and

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-24 Thread Ian Clarke
> While I agree that this is a high priority, you can't make a change like > that right before a release. The process is add features, test features, > fix bugs, test more, release. We should just release now and then add it > and try for another release soon. Of course significant changes should

Re: [Freenet-dev] Random decrement of HTL

2000-12-24 Thread Brandon
> is decremented or not. If this hasn't been done already, we should > perhaps make the change before this release 0.3.6 (which I will do > tonight PST). While I agree that this is a high priority, you can't make a change like that right before a release. The process is add features, test featu