Add rare BIP324 decoy packets for protocol compatibility enforcement #36376

issue sipa opened this issue on September 28, 2026
  1. sipa commented at 10:13 PM on September 28, 2026: member

    BIP324 supports decoy packets as a means for traffic shaping. That feature isn't used (we never send them, but support receiving them), and might never be, but not using it risks having other P2P clients not supporting it at all.

    Therefore I suggest that every V2 connection occasionally is sent a decoy packet, even a tiny one, just to make sure support isn't silently missing from other software.

  2. fanquake added the label Net on Sep 29, 2026
  3. fanquake commented at 9:50 AM on September 29, 2026: member
  4. real-or-random commented at 9:54 AM on October 12, 2026: contributor

    Concept ACK -- it's better to do this now than when we need it

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