Re: GNUnet Switches

Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:01:12 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnunet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/18/24 06:04, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have recently learned about GNUnet and am impressed with its ambitions. However I have one question:
> 
>  From my understanding GNUnet has its own link-layer implementation. Does this mean that, theoretically, there could be dumb GNUnet dumb switches as there are Ethernet switches today?
> 
> 

Well, maybe not quite as dumb as Ethernet switches, but indeed peers can 
offer only parts of the GNUnet stack and not all participants need to 
run everything.