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Can anyone explain what this means? What does it let me do?
It's designed to be as minimal-configuration as possible and scalable in a way that many other mesh routing protocols aren't.
One thing that wasn't clear to me from the documentation: What's the typical latency you observe with this network? Does the routing take physical distance/observed delays into account in some way, or could you wind up with short (in network space) paths that in reality bounce a packet back and forth between the US and New Zealand repeatedly?
Also the name of one of the first Linux distributions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X )
Also the name of one of the first Linux distributions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X )
Norse mythology has that beat by over 600 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_(disambiguation)
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for some reason I thought norse mythology was older than this !
No comprehensive account of Norse mythology was ever written down by those who believed in it, or if it was, those records or references to them have not survived to this day. The only accounts we do have are those compiled by Christian monks who were converting the old Norse believers, right at the end of the pagan era. These accounts are heavily colored by the expectations and the worldview of those monks, and we d…
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Norse mythology has that beat by over 600 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_(disambiguation)
Can anyone help with the pronunciation? There's no help from the Wikipedia article. (Not that Wikipedia pronunciation guides are of any use to anyone other than language nerds, anyway.)
Don’t need to be a language nerd to understand that.
Can anyone explain what this means? What does it let me do?
Yggdrasil builds a multi-hop IPv6 overlay network using peer-to-peer connections. You can string a whole bunch of nodes together using whatever means (cables, wireless or TCP peerings over the internet or any other network) and you get a full-mesh network where everyone can reach everyone else. It's designed to be as minimal-configuration as possible and scalable in a way that many other mesh routing protocols aren't…
One thing that wasn't clear to me from the documentation: What's the typical latency you observe with this network? Does the routing take physical distance/observed delays into account in some way, or could you wind up with short (in network space) paths that in reality bounce a packet back and forth between the US and New Zealand repeatedly?
Latency is dependent on the underlying peering connections. Yggdrasil will try wherever possible to take the shortest paths in network space, but yes, it's possible those could be physically indirect if the underlying peerings are indirect. Generally on the public network (which is probably a couple thousand nodes in number, where people have contributed a number of public nodes and have interconnected them) we see v…
Could you elaborate with some specific examples on what you see being "very reasonable latencies"?
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for some reason I thought norse mythology was older than this !
No comprehensive account of Norse mythology was ever written down by those who believed in it, or if it was, those records or references to them have not survived to this day. The only accounts we do have are those compiled by Christian monks who were converting the old Norse believers, right at the end of the pagan era. These accounts are heavily colored by the expectations and the worldview of those monks, and we d…
Interesting choice of LGPL license with exception.
Could someone summarize what exactly the implications are of the exception? It seems that it is a link-time firewall for any GPL viral behaviour? As long as you're on the other side of the linker you can do anything, including embed a statically linked version in a proprietary application?