Comment by bfirsh
4 years ago
Would it have needed leader election though? It's a stateless system. It might have been enough to ignore spoofed ARP replies, or to not attack machines of its own kind.
4 years ago
Would it have needed leader election though? It's a stateless system. It might have been enough to ignore spoofed ARP replies, or to not attack machines of its own kind.
Yeah, even in state systems, i think some sort of gossip protocol could work as long as the part of the state is being decided on is not in contention with another nodes response during a round of sampling.