[mnet-devel] reconsidering fundamental Mnet architecture

[Zooko]

 eugen wrote:
>
> I've been only skimming the list lately. Mnet moves to Twisted
> for infrastructure? Is this happening,  or has it happened alreadly?

Planned for the _new branch.  What has already happened on the _new branch is 
that the code has been refactored and cleaned up (e.g.: comms and encryption 
layer separated from application layer, as well as a bunch of other stuff), 
which will make the transition easier.

> Twisted says it can do UDP. Does Mnet use UDP in its protocols?

Not yet.

> While currently Mnet  concentration in address space is pretty much
> zero, it would be possible to use UDP broadcast to find a node to 
> bootstrap from by brute force, if your connection info is stale.

That's a neat idea.  I can think of four kinds of bootstrap:

1.  published list of hosts (i.e. on a web server)
2.  built-in list distributed with software
3.  broadcast discovery (UDP, multicast, wireless LAN)
4.  manually entered (friendnet)

--Z



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