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Are these figures measured across all leaders and all slots, or a cherry-picked subset? All leaders and all slots. The first-arrival data covers a 6-minute window with 1-in-16 sampling... Can I use a dedicated IP address for receiving LocalShred traffic? Yes. If you prefer to separate the shred stream from your main IP address, you can order a second... Can LocalShred forward shreds to multiple ports on the same IP address? Yes, as a custom solution we can add extra destination ports on the same IP address. You... Can you provide the LocalShred forwarder source address for our firewall allow-list? Yes. You can request the forwarder source IP address, so you can restrict inbound shred traffic... Do you host Solana validators in your facility? Yes, we host multiple commercial Solana validators in our facility. Their presence is publicly... Does LocalShred drop shreds on the raw forwarding path? We measured this over multiple 6-minute windows covering all leaders and all slots, not a... Does LocalShred traffic count against my monthly bandwidth allocation? No. Our monthly bandwidth allocations are measured on combined inbound and outbound traffic, but... How does LocalShred verify that forwarded shreds have not been corrupted or tampered with? Every shred passes integrity verification before it is forwarded. Across all measurement windows... How is LocalShred delivered to my server? LocalShred delivers shreds to one IP address on one port, and that IP address is the main IP... How often does LocalShred deliver a shred before Jito ShredStream does? In our measurements over a 6-minute window covering all leaders and all slots, with 1-in-16... How often does LocalShred see malformed shreds on the XDP path, and what happens to them? Across our measurement windows, the XDP invalid rate was 0.0140%. These are packets that fail... Is LocalShred available on all of your servers, or only specific hardware? LocalShred is available on any of our bare metal servers. It is delivered as a service on top of... Is the stream I receive from LocalShred actually complete, end to end? Yes, within the measured windows the effective delivered stream was complete. Putting the pieces... Turbine carries far less volume than Jito. How can LocalShred still win 28% of arrival races? This is the most common point of scepticism, and it is a fair one. In our measurement window, the... What happens when a shred goes missing on the wire? Can LocalShred recover it? Yes. Solana shreds are protected by Reed-Solomon forward error correction, and LocalShred... What is the incomplete FEC set rate for LocalShred? Zero. Across the same 20 intervals covering all leaders and all slots, we recorded fec_err = 0,... Which Jito region wins most often, and does that matter for where I deploy? Yes, region matters considerably. In our data, the Frankfurt ShredStream path won 40.5% of...
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