[BTC-dev] (EXPERIMENTAL) Wires.

[Stanislav Datskovskiy]

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'Wires' are a type of peer you can now specify on the command line
when revving up TRB, if you use this patch.

Wires don't get saved to the addr DB; they don't get shared with peers,
including one another; they don't ever voluntarily get disconnected;
if disconnected by other party, your node bangs on the door forever;
wires also carry no ban score. Think of them as 'leased lines.'
They are also permitted to connect to  ports on localhost!
(say, to tunnelers, e.g., 'g', or even ordinary ssh tunnel.)

TRB is still single-process and so specifying wires will not prevent,
e.g., slow block verification, from gumming up the works. However they
~will~ prevent the idiotic situation where known/trusted nodes were
treated equally to random scum.

Wires also will not cure the enemy's ability to arbitrarily monkey with
TCP connections. That is what 'g' (coming soon) is for.

A 'wire' link between Zoolag and Dulap is now in live-fire test.


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LC_ALL="C" /foo/bitcoind -datadir=/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin -myip=$wanip -addwire=46.166.165.30 2>&1 &

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