On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > Here's a possible way to make "Depth" useful: have the originator of > a Request set it to a small random value (say 1-10). On each forward > hop of the request, Depth is incremented as HopsToLive is decremented-- > but unlike HopsToLive, it is not further incremented on subsequent message > forwards in response to RequestFailed's, so it really does represent the > current distance from origin of the request (+ the random starting > value). Replies, then, can use it to set HopsToLive to an efficient value > (and replies themselves will not have a Depth). Will this work the way I > think it does, or am I missing something?
This is exactly what it does currently (right down to the initial random value and not being incremented when messages bounce). What did you think it did? > -- > Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> > "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, > are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified > for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
