README.md
1# Network
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3The IPFS Network package handles all of the peer-to-peer networking. It connects to other hosts, it encrypts communications, it muxes messages between the network's client services and target hosts. It has multiple subcomponents:
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5- `Conn` - a connection to a single Peer
6 - `MultiConn` - a set of connections to a single Peer
7 - `SecureConn` - an encrypted (TLS-like) connection
8- `Swarm` - holds connections to Peers, multiplexes from/to each `MultiConn`
9- `Muxer` - multiplexes between `Services` and `Swarm`. Handles `Request/Reply`.
10 - `Service` - connects between an outside client service and Network.
11 - `Handler` - the client service part that handles requests
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13It looks a bit like this:
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