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> Now that we have the c2s processes distributed
across machines, we need to get them to work
together. We need two things, the ability to
communicate how many connections a c2s has to
the others, and the ability to know who the
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> [22:21] Jer: well, the "protocol" could just be
an auth error of 3xx for redirect w/ the ip/port
to connect to
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> Maybe we need to talk about the router layer sooner...
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> Requires client support for connection
redirection. This is not hard to do,
it is just not part of any client right
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