On Wednesday 20 January 2010 16:13:30 Christian Funder Sommerlund (Zero3) wrote: > Matthew Toseland skrev: > > 3) Add a "pause" feature (188 votes) > > > > This might actually be partly due to the frequently fixed and re-broken > > "Freenet doesn't restart after I change IP address / my laptop sleeps / > > etc" bug. We need to fix that ASAP. > > > > It is also closely related to the general fact that it takes quite some > > time for a node to get up to speed on opennet after it's been down for a > > while. I have several ideas about how to improve that. We need to make > > Freenet more low-uptime-friendly, even if that means using unreasonable > > levels of data redundancy. > > > > It is also closely related to the system tray icon. We have one on Windows, > > we will soon have one on Mac, once we have both I will write one for Linux. > > > > But the specific demand is that we have some means for the node to "pause" > > its connections, so that it can get them back quickly. There has been much > > debate on this on IRC, lists and the bug tracker, it is probably possible > > and is related to some others ... > > > > Other options include just cutting the bandwidth limit or turning off the > > client layer etc. > > If we can optimize start and stop, maybe a "pause" feature isn't even > needed? Starting and stopping the service is already quite speedy. > Sounds like the main problem is getting back into the network.
I hope so, but reassimilation is slow. But we need to improve it. It may be that improving opennet bootstrapping makes any sort of "pause" mode where we can quickly reconnect unnecessary. > > > 4) use the port 80,443,53,1863 for comunication (171 votes) > > > > Remains remarkably popular! > > Note that UserVoice is easily spamable... Might not be as many users as > you think. Maybe, but it's the only quantified feedback mechanism we have.
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