HarvsG / WireGuardMeshes

A text repo to feature-track WireGuard mesh software
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[Feature Request] Explain what does 'spoke' mean #26

Closed jruiz94 closed 1 year ago

jruiz94 commented 1 year ago

Hello, just a small question that might help others too, what does 'spoke' mean in the text: "Client can join as a 'spoke' off a node/gateway on the mesh"? I don't quite understand the concept of 'spoke'.

Others might find helpful to have a brief explanation as a side note to this concept too (or maybe I'm the only one that doesn't know this concept haha)

HarvsG commented 1 year ago

Spoke is from the hub-and-spoke model of networking. If you understand what a mesh is then you are v. unlikely to understand what a hub and spoke model is https://www.google.com/search?q=networking+hub+and+spoke+model&oq=networking+hub+and+spoke+model