Mesh Network Functionality

[Winterhuman]

Just a question on how hyprspace works:

Let's say we have Peers A, B, and C. The connections initially starts as follows:

Peer B <-> Peer A
Peer C <-> Peer A

If Peer C tries to ping Peer B, does the ping request go through Peer A or does Peer A tell Peer C about Peer B's multiaddresses and ping Peer B directly?

[Winterhuman]

Nevermind, just realised defining Peer B and C in the peer list alongside Peer A would achieve a mesh network as described here, does make me wonder if some form of dynamic peer list could be introduced to allow peers to tell each other about themselves.

[alecbcs]

...does make me wonder if some form of dynamic peer list could be introduced to allow peers to tell each other about themselves.

It's on my list! (The ability to share/send a peer-config to another peer over libp2p.)

[Winterhuman]

Oh nice, looking forward to seeing it!

[bmullan]

@alecbcs
Yes this is a sorely needed feature and without it updating (expanding or contracting) the network config of many Peers is.