So we’d kill two birds with one stone if all bloom support was dropped. As far 
as I understand, precomputed filters are now provided via p2p connections as 
well.

Matt

> On Jan 14, 2021, at 00:33, Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:40:03AM -0500, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, was the interaction between fRelay and bloom disabling ever
>> specified? ie if you aren’t allowed to enable bloom filters on a connection 
>> due
>> to resource constraints/new limits, is it ever possible to “set” fRelay 
>> later?
> 
> (Maybe I'm missing something, but...)
> 
> In the current bitcoin implementation, no -- you either set
> m_tx_relay->fRelayTxes to true via the VERSION message (either explicitly
> or by not setting fRelay), or you enable it later with FILTERLOAD or
> FILTERCLEAR, both of which will cause a disconnect if bloom filters
> aren't supported. Bloom filter support is (optionally?) indicated via
> a service bit (BIP 111), so you could assume you know whether they're
> supported as soon as you receive the VERSION line.
> 
> fRelay is specified in BIP 37 as:
> 
>  | 1 byte || fRelay || bool || If false then broadcast transactions will
>  not be announced until a filter{load,add,clear} command is received. If
>  missing or true, no change in protocol behaviour occurs.
> 
> BIP 60 defines the field as "relay" and references BIP 37. Don't think
> it's referenced in any other bips.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
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