Allow setting netid/seednode before logging in

[lukechilds]

We should allow people to use a custom netid and pass these options to marketmaker.

[sindresorhus]

What kind of values are netid and seednode and what do we do with them when the user sets them? Do we pass it to Marketmaker somehow? Can you do a short summary how what I need to do here?

[lukechilds]

Yeah, they are options we pass to marketmaker on launch. It allows you to run marketmaker on your own completely segregated network.

I don't know too much about it. I can find out more if we need to implement this now, but I was under the impression it wasn't needed for the public launch.

I think it was a scaleability thing. If over time we got too many people on the network and it doesn't perform well, we split the network up over different netids.

Although I personally don't think that's a good scaling solution. Most P2P networks scale indefinitely and work better the larger they are. If the network gets slow with a large number of users, IMO that's a problem with the network and should be fixed so it scales.

But it is also useful for dICOs and private swaps etc.

[sindresorhus]

IMO that's a problem with the network and should be fixed so it scales.

Agreed!