RE: [Blocks-development] Reducing broadcast messages to ~5bytes

[Spencer Jr., M. <sp...@ac...>]

Suppose I've just received one of these 5-byte broadcasts...do I go ahead
and propogate that 5-byte broadcast to my other connections?  Or should I
wait until I've retrieved the 'full content' of the broadcast before sending
the 5-bytes on?

That seems to offer a better way to discern Eve clients (I like that term :)
) -- if someone's sending you lots of 5-byte message ID's, but doesn't
respond within a reasonable amount of time if you ask for the content of the
ID's, they're obviously a bogus connection and should be dropped.

On a related note...what are our thoughts on removing bogus clients from the
network?  On a network level, I guess we could detect bogus messages and
drop clients that way...

and on a file level and content level, I guess people could vote bad clients
off the island^H^H^H^H^H^Hnetwork.  :)

Well...the riverboat casino I've been riding has just returned to dock, and
I've got to go reconnect the fiber and turn off the wireless ethernet.  Very
good ideas, PG.  :)

--Michael Spencer
bl...@ms...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Blat Froop [SMTP:pet...@ho...]
> Sent:	Friday, August 18, 2000 9:06 AM
> To:	blo...@li...
> Subject:	[Blocks-development] Reducing broadcast messages to ~5bytes
> 
> Ive just had a brainstorm myself. We might be able to
> reduce the size of duplicate broadcast messages to
> 5 bytes or so.
> 
> Instead of simply sending broadcast messages to all
> connections, and ignoring messages received which are
> duplicates of recent messages, we could 'ask' the servers
> we're connected to if they would like to receive the
> message by sending them just the message ID... in fact
> a portion of the messade ID might do (say 4 or 8 bytes),
> effectively eliminating any duplicate broadcast messages
> throught the entire Blocknet. This would seem to offer
> near-optimal broadcast routing.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> ttfn
> 
> PG.
> 
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