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authorAdam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@gmail.com>2013-09-10 09:40:37 -0400
committerAdam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@gmail.com>2013-09-10 09:40:37 -0400
commita3a2b8dedb347c7caf92e707cd65be302c78575d (patch)
treefe494fde0800a43bd874f4dbc3df2bff5f80029f /node
parenta40b8c07f49bd9ad2748430eb9e79680059458fd (diff)
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Look up rate info from database, but going to drop min balance cause it seems unnecessary. Also work in progress on membership certs.
Diffstat (limited to 'node')
-rw-r--r--node/MulticastGroup.hpp4
-rw-r--r--node/Network.hpp26
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/node/MulticastGroup.hpp b/node/MulticastGroup.hpp
index 3c31756f..9b96d6e8 100644
--- a/node/MulticastGroup.hpp
+++ b/node/MulticastGroup.hpp
@@ -101,12 +101,12 @@ public:
}
/**
- * @return Human readable string representing this group
+ * @return Human readable string representing this group (MAC/ADI in hex)
*/
inline std::string toString() const
{
char buf[64];
- Utils::snprintf(buf,sizeof(buf),"%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x/%.8lx",(unsigned int)_mac.data[0],(unsigned int)_mac.data[1],(unsigned int)_mac.data[2],(unsigned int)_mac.data[3],(unsigned int)_mac.data[4],(unsigned int)_mac.data[5],(unsigned long)_adi);
+ Utils::snprintf(buf,sizeof(buf),"%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x/%lx",(unsigned int)_mac.data[0],(unsigned int)_mac.data[1],(unsigned int)_mac.data[2],(unsigned int)_mac.data[3],(unsigned int)_mac.data[4],(unsigned int)_mac.data[5],(unsigned long)_adi);
return std::string(buf);
}
diff --git a/node/Network.hpp b/node/Network.hpp
index 2d90dac7..76718a77 100644
--- a/node/Network.hpp
+++ b/node/Network.hpp
@@ -82,6 +82,32 @@ class Network : NonCopyable
public:
/**
* A certificate of network membership for private network participation
+ *
+ * Certificates consist of a dictionary containing one or more values with
+ * optional max delta paramters. A max delta paramter defines the maximum
+ * absolute value of the difference between each set of two values in order
+ * for two certificates to match. If there is no max delta parameter, each
+ * value is compared for straightforward string equality. Values must be
+ * in hexadecimal (and may be negative) for max delta comparison purposes.
+ * Decimals are not allowed, so decimal values must be multiplied by some
+ * factor to convert them to integers with the required relative precision.
+ * Math is done in 64-bit, allowing plenty of room for this.
+ *
+ * This allows membership in a network to be defined not only in terms of
+ * absolute parameters but also relative comparisons. For example, a network
+ * could be created that defined membership in terms of a geographic radius.
+ * Its certificates would contain latitude, longitude, and a max delta for
+ * each defining the radius.
+ *
+ * Max deltas are prefixed by "~". For example, a max delta for "longitude"
+ * would be "~longitude".
+ *
+ * One value and its associated max delta is just about always present: a
+ * timestamp. This represents the time the certificate was issued by the
+ * netconf controller. Each peer requests netconf updates periodically with
+ * new certificates, so this causes peers that are no longer members of the
+ * network to lose the ability to communicate with their certificate's "ts"
+ * field differs from everyone else's "ts" by more than "~ts".
*/
class Certificate : private Dictionary
{