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the axiom 2 weeks ago
so what happens with routed packets if there are no routes in the bloom filters? do they go up to the top of the spanning tree then down to the other side?
Yes it will fall back to greedy routing, trying to get the packet closer to the destination. It then eventually (hopefully) the packet passes a node that has the destination in one of its bloom filters.
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the axiom 2 weeks ago
greedy routing? you mean like flooding? what is the point of the spanning tree if not for routing?
No they are different things. Greedy routing only forwards to one peer that is closer to the destination. If none is closer it gets dropped. With flooding you'd send it to multiple peers at once.
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the axiom 2 weeks ago
but how do you know which peer is closest?
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