mesh-networking | LEGO blocks for networking , a Python library | Networking library

mesh-networking is a JavaScript library typically used in Networking applications. mesh-networking has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can install using 'pip install mesh-networking' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

️ NOTE: This project is no longer actively maintained, if I come back to it there's a lot of things I'd do better the second time around. For now I recommend using it for small toy projects and tests only, not in a production situation or as a dependency in a package you release to other people. The mesh-networking library is to the network what FUSE is to filesystems. It lets you simulate network interfaces and programs and direct traffic between them in any topology you like. This is a library to help you create and test simulated network topologies. It provides some simple building blocks like "Nodes", "Links", and "Filters" which help you build simulated networks on a single computer, or real networks across any number of machines. It's intended both for mesh network simulations on a local machine, and connecting programs across networks in real life. In a recent project, we used it as the peer discovery and communication layer for a storytelling blockchain project. It works very well with scapy for building and testing network protocols or networked apps. Scapy helps to build higher level network protocols, but it provides no utilities for simulating different lower-level network layouts.* Thats where mesh-networking comes in, you can create virtual machines with interfaces between them, script them to send and receive, and dynamically change the shape of the network while nodes are connected. This library provides some simple primitives to represent different pieces of the network stack. Each layer is implemented as a thread with an in and out queue with some pure functions that dictate how traffic moves forward. A Node (a computer) is a network connected device that can run Programs and accepts traffic via Filters (like iptables) and Links (like network interfaces). Using these simple building blocks, you can simulate large network topologies on a single machine, or connect several machines and link nodes on them using real connections channels like ethernet, wifi, or even IRC. You could theoretically use this in production to build a virtual network on top of some physical links, but it's written in python so I don't recommend using it for anything performance critical. An example use case is building a small chat network, where you want nodes to auto-discover each other on a LAN and be able to chat in a room.