melnet2 0.3.3

JSON-RPC/nanorpc-based, low-level auto-peering RPC protocol used throughout Themelio for peer-to-peer communciations
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melnet2: Mel's peer-to-peer protocol

melnet2 is Mel's peer-to-peer protocol. It is an overlay network that can be built over any nanorpc transport. The two important items are:

  • Backhaul, which is a trait that fully describes an underlying protocol (e.g. JSON-RPC over TCP, JSON-RPC over HTTP)
    • We provide TcpBackhaul, an high-performance, pipelined implementation of JSON-RPC over TCP
  • Swarm, which wraps around a Backhaul to implement an auto-peering peer-to-peer network of nodes implementing some nanorpc RPC protocol.
    • Swarm essentialy adds functionality for discovering peers and forming a randomly structured gossip network to any nanorpc-based system.

See examples/mn2-gossip for an example program.