Relays the neighbor last and first solid milestone indexes. The first one depends on what the pruning settings are. This is used to help a syncing node know what data their neighbor has.
Motivation
Limiting network usage by requesting transactions from nodes which actually have those (as seen by milestones)
Requirements
Add a new message type named HEARTBEAT in ProtocolMessage
Description
Relays the neighbor last and first solid milestone indexes. The first one depends on what the pruning settings are. This is used to help a syncing node know what data their neighbor has.
Motivation
Limiting network usage by requesting transactions from nodes which actually have those (as seen by milestones)
Requirements
According to the following details: https://github.com/iotaledger/protocol-rfcs/blob/d16a3815271cdb4b53ff3c234ea706bf764e1847/text/0001-protocol-messages/0001-protocol-messages.md#heartbeat
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