Re: GNUnet

I also like to add that there are several interpretations of the term 
"connection" in GNUnet.

First and foremost there are direct connections between peers via the 
Transport layer of GNUnet.

If you start your peer it automatically tries to establish direct 
connections to other peers (it knows), and when succeeded your peer is 
already "connected" to GNUnet. But those "connection" is not E2E 
encrypted, which is the responsibility of the Core layer. The output of

gnunet-core

gives you all the E2E encrypted direct connections.

Then there are connections in terms of the Cadet routing layer. This 
means your peer knows of paths to others peers. If you like to send a 
message to another peer the Cadet layer sets up a so called tunnel, 
which one also could interpret as some kind of connection.

I guess you tried gnunet-cadet, because you wrote

"tried to connect to the other peer and port"

right?

gnunet-cadet -P

lists peers you might have paths to, which means it should be able to 
send message via the Cadet layer to that peer.

There some issues with the Transport and Cadet layer, which might make 
sending messages via the Cadet layer unreliable. We are right now 
working on a redesign of the Transport layer to get rid of those 
problems. Unreliable means, sometimes sending messages via Cadet is not 
a problem at all working instantaneously, sometimes an initial message 
needs some minutes, and after that the following message are received 
instantaneously, and sometimes messages to not arrive at all, and you 
have to restart the peers to try again.

The probability of getting a connection is higher if have a direct 
connection between peers. You can import

gnunet-peerinfo -p HELLO

the hello string you get by

gnunet-peerinfo -sg

to achieve a direct connection to the peer you imported the hello string 
from.

If the peers are natted this might also be an issue. Easiest way to make 
a natted peer reachable is to open the port 2086 (default GNUnet port) 
in your router.

I hope this might help.

- t3sserakt

On 01.11.22 03:14, Martin Schanzenbach wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Can you elaborate on what exactly you are trying to achieve?
> If you start two peers those will not necessarily automatically connect
> to each other directly.
> By nature of the p2p overlay, the peers may be connected only
> indirectly, which is fine.
> You do need to have at least one connection for the routing to work,
> usually this is to peer Y924.
> You can check your (direct) connections with
>
> $ gnunet-core
>
> It is also sometimes prudent to wait a bit until the connections are set
> up.
>
> Br
> Martin
>
> On 31.10.22 21:46, Rowan de Jong wrote:
>> Dear Mr/Mrs,
>>
>>   
>>
>> Our names are Rowan de Jong and Mart van der Veen, we are students from the
>> Netherlands from the school De Lage Waard. We are making a report about GNUnet
>> and we have some questions. We have a problem, me and my friend’s GNUnet
>> systems do not connect with eachother. We followed all the steps on your site,
>> but after one of us tried to connect to the other peer and port it didn’t
>> connect. Is there someone who could help us? We would really appreciate it.
>>
>>   
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>   
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>   
>>
>> Rowan de Jong and Mart van der Veen
>>
>>   
>>
>>   
>>
>>   
>>

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