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  • That advertisement would be interpreted as Node C’s advertisement.

    The plan is to treat public keys as node’s identity and trust mechanism similar to OpenPGP (e.g. include any node key signed by a master key as a cluster member)

    Right now, none of the encryption part is done and it is not a priority right now. I need to first implement transitive node detection, actually forward packets between nodes, some way to store and manage routes, and then trust and encryption mechanisms before I’d dare to test this stuff on a real network.







  • Just did some basic testing on broadcast addresses using socat, broadcast is not working at all with /32 addresses. With /24 addresses, broadcast only reaches nodes that share a subnet. Nodes that don’t share the subnet aren’t reachable by broadcast even when they’re reachable via unicast.

    Edit1: Did more testing, it seems like broadcast traffic ignores routing tables.

    On 192.168.0.2, I am running socat -u udp-recv:8000,reuseaddr - to print UDP messages.

    Case 1: add 192.168.0.1/24

    # ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0
    # # Testing unicast
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.2:8000 <<< "Message"
    # # Worked
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.255:8000,broadcast <<< "Message"
    # # Worked
    

    Case 2: Same as above but delete 192.168.0.0/24 route

    # ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0
    # ip route del 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0
    # # Testing unicast
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.2:8000 <<< "Message"
    2024/02/13 22:00:23 socat[90844] E sendto(5, 0x5d3cdaa2b000, 8, 0, AF=2 192.168.0.2:8000, 16): Network is unreachable
    # # Testing broadcast
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.255:8000,broadcast <<< "Message"
    # # Worked