[freenet-dev] [freenet-cvs] r15923 - in trunk/freenet/src/freenet: l10n node

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 21:08, David Sowder wrote:
> Florent Daignière wrote:
> > * Volodya <Volodya at WhenGendarmeSleeps.org> [2007-11-28 08:27:46]:
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> >> Matthew Toseland wrote:
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> >>> On Sunday 25 November 2007 15:50, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote:
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> >>>> I was just implementing 
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=1816
> >>>>         
> >>> Not everything that is a bug is necessarily a good idea.
> >>>       
> >> If your plan is to let people use OpenNet, and then switch to FriendNet, 
then it would only make sense to allow
> >> them to start bringing the total number of OpenNet connections down as 
they find more and more friends to join.
> >>
> >>                           - Volodya
> >>
> >> P.S. Or am i missing something here.
> >>     
> >
> > You are  missing something;  that's already  implemented! The  number of
> > opennet peers  is already  capped, if you  add darknet  connections, the
> > number of opennet peers will be reduced.
> >   
> The number can only be configured to be at or below the maximum that was 
> hardcoded before.  Perhaps someone wants to reduce the maximum used by 
> the node for bandwidth availability reasons.  Darknet peer counts are 
> totally user configurable and opennet can be completely disabled.  I 
> think we should prefer the opennet peer count be user configurable to 
> match the darknet peer count.  AFAIK, most people won't be reducing the 
> opennet peer count without some reason to do so as most users would 
> prefer to increase it above 20, thinking that will improve things for 
> them and the current code won't let them do that.

The current code is fine IMHO. Like you said it's only useful on really low 
bandwidth systems.
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