Better management of the routing table
- Dominant language
- Python
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- 19
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- 15
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Description
## What was wrong?
We need better management of the routing table. Here are some things that are less than ideal.
- Situations like losing network connection for a minute can end up dropping all routing table entries. Currently there is no logic that will recover from this.
- Testing some of the `NetworkAPI` stuff is harder than it needs to be since the logic is bundled. Unbundling should simplify some tests.
- Routing table management logic is basically the same in both alexandria and core network, but code is duplicated.
## How can it be fixed?
Probably a new `RoutingTableManager` service.
- handle liveliness checks for routing table entries (send ping messages to entries that haven't been pinged recently)
- detect when the routing table is empty. fallback to bootnodes. fallback to ENR database (needs `eth-enr` upgrade)
- perform network exploration logic.
- external facing API to signal routing table "readyness". `await rtm.routing_table_ready()`
- sharable between both core network and alexandria.
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Research direction
Start by locating the NetworkAPI logic and the routing-table implementations in core network and alexandria. Review how bootnodes, the ENR database, liveliness checks, and network exploration currently work, including the needed eth-enr upgrade. Done means a shared RoutingTableManager supports these behaviors and exposes routing_table_ready().
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100