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hashicorp / memberlist

Golang package for gossip based membership and failure detection
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memberlist support unicast some node ? #154

Open rfyiamcool opened 6 years ago

rfyiamcool commented 6 years ago

because broadcast cost network bandwidth, i think design unicast some nodes can reduce bandwidth.

enjoy it & thank you.

JensRantil commented 5 years ago

The broadcast is not just used for broadcasting, but also to check for liveness of nodes which is a core part of the library/protocol. Also, the gossip broadcast is more reliable that unicast.

I suggest this issue is closed.