Re: Re: [freenet-dev] Important news for users of stable dual-network nodes -- Please read!

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:44:40 +0000, Matthew Toseland
> <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:24:41PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:30:11 +0000, Matthew Toseland
> > > <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > [ re: dual-network nodes ]
> > > 
> > > > It's a massive hack and I'm amazed it works...
> > > 
> > > Well, the term "massive hack" is a little misleading.  It's really
> > > just a simple adjustment of a few variables.
> > 
> > Well, the way the code was designed is such that it is SUPPOSED to
> > disconnect from incompatible nodes. Hence my amazement that it works.
> 
> But...if they're using the same protocol, then where's the
> incompatibility? 

They're not. They use a deliberately different protocolVersion. They are
supposed to disconnect if a node connects with a different
protocolVersion.

> As far as I can tell, both the latest stable and
> unstable are perfectly compatible with each other.  We really might even
> wish to consider just going ahead and enabling the dual-network mode by
> default in versions 510x and 6026x.  I think this could be a real boon
> to the currently existing network(s).

Possibly. Personally I haven't used unstable in ages. It is useful
_sometimes_ to have a network you can disrupt. But right now effort is
focussed on 0.7.
> 
> Of course, 0.7 is bound to bring some radical changes, where we'd want
> to disable this feature again, but for now, it might be nice to build it
> into the downloadable packages, so everyone could benefit from it.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
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