disable POKE for fluffy test by default closes (#1640)

fluffy/network/wire/portal_protocol.nim

@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ const
  # incoming directions.
  concurrentOffers = 50
 
+const disablePoke {.booldefine.}: bool = false
+
 type
  ToContentIdHandler* =
  proc(contentKey: ByteList): results.Opt[ContentId] {.raises: [], gcsafe.}
@@ -933,6 +935,13 @@ proc triggerPoke*(
  nodes: seq[Node],
  contentKey: ByteList,
  content: seq[byte]) =
+ ## See: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1/issues/1640 
+ ## In order to properly test gossip mechanisms (e.g. in Portal Hive), 
+ ## we need the option to turn off the POKE functionality as it influenceshow 
+ ## how data moves around the network. 
+ echo ">>> disablePoke: ", disablePoke
+ if disablePoke: 
+ return 
  ## Triggers asynchronous offer-accept interaction to provided nodes.
  ## Provided content should be in range of provided nodes.
  for node in nodes:

nimbus.nimble

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ task fluffy_test, "Run fluffy tests":
  # Seperate build for these tests as they are run with a low `mergeBlockNumber`
  # to make the tests faster. Using the real mainnet merge block number is not
  # realistic for these tests.
- test "fluffy/tests", "all_fluffy_tests", "-d:chronicles_log_level=ERROR -d:nimbus_db_backend=sqlite -d:mergeBlockNumber:38130"
+ test "fluffy/tests", "all_fluffy_tests", "-d:chronicles_log_level=ERROR -d:nimbus_db_backend=sqlite -d:mergeBlockNumber:38130 -d:disablePoke=true"
 
 task utp_test_app, "Build uTP test app":
  buildBinary "utp_test_app", "fluffy/tools/utp_testing/", "-d:chronicles_log_level=TRACE -d:chronosStrictException"