meshconn

meshconn implements net.PacketConn on top of mesh. Think of it as UDP with benefits: NAT and bastion host (DMZ) traversal, broadcast/multicast in networks where this is normally not possible e.g. EC2, and an up-to-date, queryable memberlist.

meshconn supports net.Addr of the form weavemesh://<PeerName>. By default, <PeerName> is a hardware address of the form 01:02:03:FD:FE:FF. Other forms of PeerName e.g. hashes are supported.

meshconn itself is largely stateless and has best-effort delivery semantics. As a future experiment, it could easily be amended to have basic resiliency guarantees. Also, at the moment, PacketConn read and write deadlines are not supported.