On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Luke-Jr <l...@dashjr.org> wrote: > On Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:42:26 AM Randy Willis wrote: >> Introducing super-nodes with thousands of connected peers can greatly help >> here. > > UDP is connectionless. > I would hope any UDP bitcoin protocol doesn't try to emulate a connection. :/
It depends on the usage. Simply broadcasting a TX or INV to a remote peer does not require a connection, clearly... but you probably want to signal acceptance of those messages somehow. But other uses, like subscribing to a broadcast, does require some notion of an association. In the rough draft, a parallel TCP connection with version/verack sequence is required, and you may make use of it if a connection is needed. But that is just one approach. A more robust, heavyweight UDP P2P might be a hole-punching TCP alternative. It's up to the community and results of experimentation. Bittorrent has evolved a full transfer protocol over UDP, to get around firewalls and the like. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgar...@exmulti.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
