Setting a high HTL is just shooting yourself in the foot, it will take forever
to get a reply (especially if the message is lost somewhere). There may be
times when people want to set a low htl however.
The HTL is also needed to calculate approximately how long the stream will live
(yes, you can calculate this is as a Geometric or Negative Binomial random
variable and create a confidence level, but the it will be much wider then the
guess we can make now which is no good).
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Adam Langley wrote:
>
>
> Hmm, it seems quite complicated.
>
> Why bother w/ HTL at all? It just allows people to insert/request/... and
> cover
> more of the freenet. Do we really want to allow people to choose an HTL? We
> can
> set a maximum I suppose.
>
> I just think that testing a random event on *every hop*, rather than have an
> HTL at all, is a cleaner solution.
>
> AGL
>
> --
> Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
>
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