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Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa

Rustacean Station

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How Does Application Layer Routing Work?

Rit works. Can you explain to me, like im five, how does this work? Because it's so hard to imagine. Rit is a collection of composible protocols and then a collection of library functions that provide access to those composible protocols. Wehave a little component that takes data from one transport layer connection from this end, and sends it down to another transport layer connection on the other end. So i could have three servers between the pot between you and me, and it will still carry that message,. But it's important to note that this isn't network layer routing. Its application layer, layer seven routing, right? It's at the application layer.

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