Module network::peer_manager

The PeerManager module is responsible for establishing connections between Peers and for opening/receiving new substreams on those connections.

Implementation

The PeerManager is implemented as a number of actors:

• A main event loop actor which is responsible for handling requests and sending notification about new/lost Peers to the rest of the network stack.
• An actor responsible for dialing and listening for new connections.

Modules

• builder
• conn_notifs_channel
  conn_notifs_channel is a channel which delivers to the receiver only the last of N messages that might have been sent by sender(s) since the last poll. The items are separated using a key that is provided by the sender with each message.

Structs

• ConnectionRequestSender
  Convenience wrapper which makes it easy to issue connection requests and await the responses from PeerManager.
• PeerManager
  Responsible for handling and maintaining connections to other Peers
• PeerManagerRequestSender
  Convenience wrapper which makes it easy to issue communication requests and await the responses from PeerManager.

Enums

• ConnectionNotification
• ConnectionRequest
• PeerManagerError
• PeerManagerNotification
  Notifications sent by PeerManager to upstream actors.
• PeerManagerRequest
  Request received by PeerManager from upstream actors.
• TransportNotification

Type Definitions

• IpAddrTokenBucketLimiter