libp2p<->dep2p integration about go-ipld-eth-import HOT 3 CLOSED

dryajov [3:39 PM] 
Yup, thats the idea - I’m going to start pocking around how to mount devp2p on libp2p… So we can have that agnostic way of discovering content over both networks.

whyrusleeping [3:39 PM]  @dryajov you shouldnt mount devp2p on libp2p
[3:39] you want to just run both network stacks separately
[3:39] and have logic that ties between them
[3:39] a bridge, basically

dryajov [3:39 PM]  ah, ok
[3:44]  so I was thinking about this
> you would have to abstract the network layer down to concepts that the ethereum protocol can work with, then it just looks for ‘peers’

whyrusleeping [3:44 PM] yeah

dryajov [3:44 PM] write the necesary parts (not sure if mounting was the correct term there) so that we can connect both the libp2p and devp2p networks

whyrusleeping [3:45 PM] you basically have 'thing that is ethereum that does things with peers'
[3:45] then you have the 'network implementation that provides peers'
[3:45] the you abstract the concept of peers for both devp2p and libp2p

dryajov [3:45 PM] aha! 
[3:47] yeah, so the way I see it - we need  an “ethereum transport” for libp2p, the low level handshakes, etc… - which I think is your  ‘thing that is ethereum that does things with peers’ (edited)
[3:48] actually, backwards that seems to be your - ‘network implementation that provides peers’

whyrusleeping [3:49 PM] noooo

dryajov [3:49 PM] ;(

whyrusleeping [3:49 PM] so like, ipfs right now is a thing that does things with peers

dryajov [3:49 PM] yup

whyrusleeping [3:50 PM] libp2p provides that
[3:50] devp2p could also provide that (with much pain and hackiness)
[3:50] we could also make a network stack that contains both libp2p and devp2p
[3:50] and if you call 'dial'
[3:51] it will decide which network is the right one to connect to
[3:51] and delegate the dial to either libp2p or devp2p
[3:51] thats a pretty involved way of making this work

dryajov [3:53 PM] so, are you saying that this would be more adhoc, if we know this is an ethereum hash, then just dial over the devp2p network
[3:54] I was thinking about something like that, but that integrates nicely into the libp2p stack…