Cao, Yu, Decouchant, Luo, & Verissimo (2020) "Exploring the Monero peer-to-peer network." said "We plan to release our toolset as an open source project shortly."

Did anyone see anything more about this? The first author is now at a blockchain research firm. We could contact him: academy.kunyaokeji.com/team

Cao's 2022 PhD thesis available from wwwfr.uni.lu/layout/set/print/snt/people/tong_cao. The tools include "NeighborFinder" and "NodeScanner", as far as I can tell, unreleased. I have contacted him at Kunyao Academy.

I put together an overview of the Seraphis design as currently implemented: gist.github.com/UkoeHB/f508a6ad973fbf85195403057e87449e

Interesting. Maybe also post this on #no-wallet-left-behind.

I saw only one small typo, towards the end: "Such clientes only need to download key"

If you list everything in one place, it really becomes apparent what a jump forward that will be - if we can pull it off.

Rucknium are you looking for a script/tool to scan the monero network?

The paper I discussed last meeting about Dandelion++ assumed a certain ratio of transactions to node per time unit. It would be good to have an accurate node count.

There are websites with Monero node counts. Without a methodology or open source code for those estimates, they are unreliable.

If you set max out peers in your monerod to ridiculous numbers, it won't connect to more than 1200-1300 nodes even on a 1 Gbit connections. I know, I've tried.

I have an old python script that will recursively scan nodes via the p2p protocol, I can send it to you

It kinda starts bugging out once it gets into the 5k+ nodes found range, but perhaps you can find someone who could improve it a bit

That would be good. Can you post it publicly so others can see, too?

Sure, though the code quality is kinda garbage 😅

is this parsing print_pl?

nope, I use the py-levin package which actually does a p2p handshake with nodes and decodes the peerlist received

and then does the same with each of those peers, and so on

wow nice

(this one: github.com/sanderfoobar/py-levin )

i remember trying this and "it didnt work"

i assume i was the problem, and it still works?

iirc I had to do some tweaks to py-levin

it's not a proper full implementation of the entire levin protocol, only does the handshake and little else iirc