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138 lines
4.2 KiB
Groff
.TH "LIGHTNING-GETROUTE" "7" "" "" "lightning-getroute"
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.SH NAME
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lightning-getroute - Command for routing a payment (low-level)
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBgetroute\fR \fIid\fR \fImsatoshi\fR \fIriskfactor\fR [\fIcltv\fR] [\fIfromid\fR]
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[\fIfuzzpercent\fR] [\fIexclude\fR] [\fImaxhops\fR]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBgetroute\fR RPC command attempts to find the best route for the
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payment of \fImsatoshi\fR to lightning node \fIid\fR, such that the payment will
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arrive at \fIid\fR with \fIcltv\fR-blocks to spare (default 9)\.
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\fImsatoshi\fR is in millisatoshi precision; it can be a whole number, or a
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whole number ending in \fImsat\fR or \fIsat\fR, or a number with three decimal
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places ending in \fIsat\fR, or a number with 1 to 11 decimal places ending
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in \fIbtc\fR\.
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There are two considerations for how good a route is: how low the fees
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are, and how long your payment will get stuck in a delayed output if a
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node goes down during the process\. The \fIriskfactor\fR non-negative
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floating-point field controls this tradeoff; it is the annual cost of
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your funds being stuck (as a percentage)\.
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For example, if you thought the convenience of keeping your funds liquid
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(not stuck) was worth 20% per annum interest, \fIriskfactor\fR would be 20\.
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If you didn’t care about risk, \fIriskfactor\fR would be zero\.
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\fIfromid\fR is the node to start the route from: default is this node\.
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The \fIfuzzpercent\fR is a non-negative floating-point number, representing a
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percentage of the actual fee\. The \fIfuzzpercent\fR is used to distort
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computed fees along each channel, to provide some randomization to the
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route generated\. 0\.0 means the exact fee of that channel is used, while
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100\.0 means the fee used might be from 0 to twice the actual fee\. The
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default is 5\.0, or up to 5% fee distortion\.
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\fIexclude\fR is a JSON array of short-channel-id/direction (e\.g\. [
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"564334x877x1/0", "564195x1292x0/1" ]) or node-id which should be excluded
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from consideration for routing\. The default is not to exclude any channels
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or nodes\. Note if the source or destination is excluded, the command result
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is undefined\.
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\fImaxhops\fR is the maximum number of channels to return; default is 20\.
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.SH RISKFACTOR EFFECT ON ROUTING
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The risk factor is treated as if it were an additional fee on the route,
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for the purposes of comparing routes\.
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The formula used is the following approximation:
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.nf
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.RS
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risk-fee = amount x blocks-timeout x per-block-cost
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.RE
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.fi
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We are given a \fIriskfactor\fR expressed as a percentage\. There are 52596
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blocks per year, thus \fIper-block-cost\fR is \fIriskfactor\fR divided by
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5,259,600\.
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The final result is:
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.nf
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.RS
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risk-fee = amount x blocks-timeout x riskfactor / 5259600
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.RE
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.fi
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Here are the risk fees in millisatoshis, using various parameters\. I
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assume a channel charges the default of 1000 millisatoshis plus 1
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part-per-million\. Common to_self_delay values on the network at 14 and
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144 blocks\.
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.SH RECOMMENDED RISKFACTOR VALUES
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The default \fIfuzz\fR factor is 5%, so as you can see from the table above,
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that tends to overwhelm the effect of \fIriskfactor\fR less than about 5\.
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1 is a conservative value for a stable lightning network with very few
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failures\.
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1000 is an aggressive value for trying to minimize timeouts at all
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costs\.
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The default for \fBlightning-pay\fR(7) is 10, which starts to become a major
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factor for larger amounts, and is basically ignored for tiny ones\.
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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On success, a "route" array is returned\. Each array element contains
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\fIid\fR (the node being routed through), \fImsatoshi\fR (the millisatoshis
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sent), \fIamount_msat\fR (the same, with \fImsat\fR appended), \fIdelay\fR (the
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number of blocks to timeout at this node), and \fIstyle\fR (indicating
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the features which can be used for this hop)\.
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The final \fIid\fR will be the destination \fIid\fR given in the input\. The
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difference between the first \fImsatoshi\fR minus the \fImsatoshi\fR given in
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the input is the fee\. The first \fIdelay\fR is the very worst case timeout
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for the payment failure, in blocks\.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Rusty Russell \fI<rusty@rustcorp.com.au\fR> is mainly responsible\.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBlightning-pay\fR(7), \fBlightning-sendpay\fR(7)\.
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.SH RESOURCES
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Main web site: \fIhttps://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning\fR
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