Re: use of fid_ with http

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

> I thought id_ (from Node) was used for this purp. That's what the code appears 
> to do:

Sorry I didn't explain it clearly. Yes id_ is used for that purpose. fid_
is used to separate every connection that a server/etc makes so that every
tcp connection has its own fid_.

> So I've overrided Http::getfid so as to always set fid_ = 0. It seems to work 
> fine for what I need (bursty, exponential traffic). 

You are right that settting fid_ to 0 does not affect the traffic at all. 

> Now I would like to know if what I've done can have a *desastrous* impact on the 
> traffic, if I can reasonnably use it; or if I should switch to 
> large-scale-web-traffic.tcl. 

No it has no effect on the traffic.

- Haobo