I’m trying to connect to a local testnet3 node using custom Rust code.
After the handshake, the node sends: sendcmpct This is a message according to BIP152. The message I received was
(11, 17, 9, 7, 115, 101, 110, 100, 99, 109, 112, 99, 116, 0, 0, 0, 9, 0, 0, 0, 233, 47, 94, 248)
where
11, 17, 9, 7 It’s a network
115, 101, 110, 100, 99, 109, 112, 99, 116, 0, 0, 0 Command (12 bytes).
9, 0, 0, 0 Length of the included payload (little endian).
and 233, 47, 94, 248 This is the checksum.
There are no other bytes in the message.
I also verified that the checksum is correct.
Why does the message declare a 9-byte payload (correctly according to the BIP), but the message has no actual payload?
Thanks for your help.