GUVWAF

> Wait, are we talking about want_ack or want_response now? It seems indeed this issue is about `want_response`, not `want_ack`. I agree that it is of good use in some...

@compumike Would like to know your thoughts on this also.

Is your mesh quite busy? This might be actually the PacketHistory (which is used to filter duplicates) being full. If it got overwritten in those 20 min. and then still...

Thanks for your detailed answer. This was the most interesting line: `INFO | 20:18:28 283096 [Router] Packet History - insert: Reusing slot aged 998.430s TRACE OLDEST SLOT` So it means...

> does no one else see the bad impact of abusing a field like is_favorite for such critical functionality Yes, I agree we'd need a dedicated flag for this, but...

> I'm starting to get annoyed that every gremlin in the system is getting blamed on 0-hop routing when any bad actor (or bug) can simply replay a message to...

"HopStart" was introduced such that we can determine how many "hops away" a node is. When changing it to a single TTL value that counts down, while you can still...

Using only one bit to denote whether the default is used would still lead to an unknown amount of hops in many cases. I agree maybe a higher hop limit...

It is used in several places in the firmware now, for example to determine whether we should re-transmit a repeated message (when it comes from the original transmitter): https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/blob/61e41a8beb3add9a5acd1e7e45701a6f16692075/src/mesh/NextHopRouter.cpp#L67-L68 Furthermore,...

> Exporting data to MQTT from multiple locations within the same area can be considered a more powerful option for analysis. True, but I think you would agree that this...