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Improve net_plugin syncing via communication of earliest available block #792

Closed heifner closed 1 year ago

heifner commented 2 years ago

Currently the net_plugin handshake message does not include earliest available block information which causes many requests from peers for blocks that a node does not have.

Include the earliest available block on a node in the handshake message. One potential way would be to look at the peers network_version after the initial handshake and send a handshake_v2 which includes the earliest block info. handshake_v2 could be detected according to network_version of the handshake to know if any additional information is included after the end of handshake_message. This additional information can't be sent until verification of the peer's version as an older version of net_plugin would not correctly handle the additional information after the handshake_message data.

stephenpdeos commented 2 years ago

This is work that may be made obsolete due to upcoming P2P work.

heifner commented 1 year ago

Subsumed by https://github.com/AntelopeIO/leap/issues/1072