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Hello

Router family is a nice feature to combine more than one router in a so called family.
Currently only feature of this function is to show others these routers are in control of the same person/group.
Future use cases are ideas about routing, but no proposal has been made ready yet.

To configure this, visit http://127.0.0.1:7657/configfamily and type in a name of the new family, click on create family.
After a router restart, visit the same side, export the secret family key and import this secret key on the others routers which should be in the same family.

http://zzz.i2p/topics/2177-router-family

echelon

Would be nice to see this implemented as load-balancing for static websites.
Example: Upload static website to one router and they propagate over the family routers.

Hi

automatic content distribution is a nice idea, but router family is on a different level of network topology

Depending on the setup of a router family, a rsync job can do this task already. although with multihoming you still have the content 3-way-merge issue and other small hickups.

So, nice idea, but not really expected to be included in near and further future.

echelon

I figured it would be more like a plugin instead of an actual feature.
I wish I knew more Java to be able to implement this.