Other Protocols

Any peer in the cluster, can be used used to identify a peer using its unique node that it represents.

SWIM A peer which originated a ping, should be replied to with an ack.

A SWIM peer which originated a pingRequest and thus can receive either an ack or nack from the intermediary.

SWIM peer which can be initiated contact with, by sending ping or ping request messages.

This protocol defines all callbacks that a SWIM Shell (in other words, “runtime”) must implement to properly drive the underlying SWIM.Instance (which contains the complete logic of SWIM).