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The crate provides the probing functionality used by the transport layer to identify different attributes of possible transport paths in the network.
The goal of probing is to establish a map with weighted properties that will allow the caller to optimize transport, verify transport path properties and lay groundworks for mitigating potential adversarial behavior.
There are 2 fundamental types of probing:
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Immediate hop probing - collects telemetry for direct 0-hop neighbors. Such telemetry can be identified and potentially gamed by an adversary, but it is still useful to identify the basic properties of the most immediate connection to the neighbor, since in the worst case scenario the mitigation strategy can discard unsuitable peers.
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Multi-hop probing - collects telemetry using a probing mechanism based on looping. A loop is a message sent by this peer to itself through different pre-selected peers. This probing mechanism can be combined together with the cover traffic into a single mechanism improving the network view.
Re-exports§
pub use crate::config::ProbeConfig;pub use crate::probe::Probe;