[or-cvs] Updated HACKING and README docs

Roger Dingledine arma at seul.org
Mon Jul 22 04:09:07 UTC 2002


Update of /home/or/cvsroot
In directory moria.seul.org:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs

Modified Files:
	HACKING Makefile.am README 
Log Message:
Updated HACKING and README docs

HACKING now explains bandwidth throttling, congestion control,
and router twins. Read it and see if it makes sense.



Index: Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.1 -r1.2
--- Makefile.am	28 Jun 2002 23:26:41 -0000	1.1
+++ Makefile.am	22 Jul 2002 04:07:34 -0000	1.2
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 
 DIST_SUBDIRS = src
 
-EXTRA_DIST = TODO
\ No newline at end of file
+EXTRA_DIST = TODO HACKING FAQ
+

Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/README,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -d -r1.4 -r1.5
--- README	19 Jul 2002 21:02:39 -0000	1.4
+++ README	22 Jul 2002 04:07:34 -0000	1.5
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 
 If you got the source from a tarball:
 
-  Run ./configure, make, make install as usual.
+  Run ./configure and make as usual. There isn't much point in 
+  'make install' yet.
 
 If this doesn't work for you:
 
@@ -23,7 +24,6 @@
   we'll see what we can do.
 
 Once you've got it compiled:
-  (these notes assume you started with source from cvs)
 
   It's a bit hard to figure out what to do with the binaries. If you
   want to set up your own test network, go into src/config/ and look
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@
   then ^z the wget a little bit in. The onion routers will continue
   talking for a while, queueing around 500k in the kernel-level buffers.
   When the kernel buffers are full, and the outbuf for the AP connection
-  also fills, the internal congestion control will kick in and the
-  exit connection will stop reading from the webserver. The circuit
-  will wait until you fg the wget -- and other circuits will work just
-  fine throughout.
+  also fills, the internal congestion control will kick in and the exit
+  connection will stop reading from the webserver. The circuit will
+  wait until you fg the wget -- and other circuits will work just fine
+  throughout. Then try ^z'ing the onion routers, and watch how well it
+  recovers. Then try ^z'ing several of them at once. :)
 



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