On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:02 AM Robin Sommer <ro...@corelight.com> wrote:
> True, although it's not cycles in the connection topology that matter, > it's cycles in topic subscriptions. Right, good point. > I need to think about this a bit > more (and I need to remind myself how our topics currently look like) I think we just have the "broadcast_topic" to which all nodes subscribe, but not sure if there's more. > but could we set up topics so that even in a cluster, messages don't > go into a cycle? I don't see why not, but it takes planning and prudence on everyone's part (including users) to not break that rule. I'd be more comfortable if one could automate answering the question: "if I add a subscription to a given node in the network, will I create a cycle?". - Jon _______________________________________________ bro-dev mailing list bro-dev@bro.org http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/bro-dev