On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:45:26PM -0500, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > It seems to me that a node could benefit from knowing that it doesn't > need to do outgoing hole punching. > > Some possible benefits: > > - The node wouldn't need to send handshakes to disconnected nodes nearly > as often for nodes we haven't heard from in some time period
As long as it knows the other end also is not firewalled. > - The node wouldn't need to do ARK requests nearly as often for nodes we > haven't heard from in a while either Their IP address may have changed; ours may have changed. > - Reduces output bandwidth demand, thus freeing it for other traffic > - This could help https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=316 some > at least I'm not convinced it's a problem. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060519/3a57902c/attachment.pgp>
