lightningd: --message-padding to allow users to disable padding altogether#9068
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…ogether. In case there are more cases we missed, this lets users disable it. Changelog-Added: Config: `message-padding` option can be set to `false` to disable it for all peers. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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| * **message-padding**=*BOOL* | ||
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| Normally `connectd` will send extra bytes to peers to make messages |
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| - Protocol: we now pad all peer messages to make them the same length (excluding LND < v21 and current Eclair). ([#8893], [#9022]) | ||
| - Config: `message-padding` option can be set to `false` to disable it for all peers. ([#9068]) |
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In case there are more cases we missed, this lets users disable it.
Changelog-Added: Config:
message-paddingoption can be set tofalseto disable it for all peers.