better documentation for gossipsub
License: MIT Signed-off-by: vyzo <vyzo@hackzen.org>
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@@ -45,7 +45,12 @@ run your daemon with the `--enable-pubsub-experiment` flag. Then use the
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### gossipsub
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-You can enable the new experimental gossipsub protocol via configuration:
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+Gossipsub is a new, experimental routing protocol for pubsub that
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+should waste less bandwidth than floodsub, the current pubsub
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+protocol. It's backwards compatible with floodsub so enabling this
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+feature shouldn't break compatibility with existing IPFS nodes.
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+You can enable gossipsub via configuration:
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`ipfs config Pubsub.Router gossipsub`
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### Road to being a real feature