Paul Jimenez wrote: > > On Thursday, Apr 13, 2000, Oskar Sandberg writes: > >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? > > I was unware this was the way things worked, and am a bit puzzled as to why > Replies need to search their way back to the originator; can't each node track > received/sent RequestId's internally so that replies to a certain request need > only get sent back to the node that requested them?
Again, this is exactly the way things DO work! Requests do a search, but replies go straight back without any backtracking as you would expect. Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
