From f8725d8ec9f35440ed9be83a035d62f02b9923a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vyzo Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:30:12 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] better documentation for gossipsub License: MIT Signed-off-by: vyzo --- docs/experimental-features.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/experimental-features.md b/docs/experimental-features.md index 63cdbfcf3..34bc13954 100644 --- a/docs/experimental-features.md +++ b/docs/experimental-features.md @@ -45,7 +45,12 @@ run your daemon with the `--enable-pubsub-experiment` flag. Then use the ### gossipsub -You can enable the new experimental gossipsub protocol via configuration: +Gossipsub is a new, experimental routing protocol for pubsub that +should waste less bandwidth than floodsub, the current pubsub +protocol. It's backwards compatible with floodsub so enabling this +feature shouldn't break compatibility with existing IPFS nodes. + +You can enable gossipsub via configuration: `ipfs config Pubsub.Router gossipsub` ### Road to being a real feature