[tor-bugs] #4486 [Analysis]: Research: should N23 actually help in practice?

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#4486: Research: should N23 actually help in practice?
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 Reporter:  arma                     |          Owner:  robgjansen       
     Type:  task                     |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:                   
Component:  Analysis                 |        Version:                   
 Keywords:  performance flowcontrol  |         Parent:  #4506            
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Comment(by robgjansen):

 Replying to [comment:38 arma]:
 > Replying to [comment:36 robgjansen]:
 > > I was talking to John from UMN last week. He's been using a modified
 version of the n23-2 branch, after fixing some problems that prevented his
 torrent clients from working properly. IIRC, n23 only worked when
 downloading data (not uploading). He mentioned that the n23-3 was broken.
 > >
 > > I'm currently trying to extract some code from him that actually
 works.
 >
 > I've pushed an update to my n23-4 branch that has John's patch in it.

 I've tested the n23-4 branch, and its broken :( Vanilla Tor works as
 expected, but clients are plagued with socks connection errors when n23 is
 turned on, so no one ever downloads anything. I guess that means we should
 stick with n23-2 going forward, until a new n23 patch is written in #5379.

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