The NTCP transport allows passing I2P messages on top of TCP. The N in NTCP stands for 'New', as the NTCP transport replaces an older TCP transport which had issues concerning congestion collapse.
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| EstablishState |
Handle the 4-phase establishment, which is as follows:
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| EventPumper |
The main NTCP NIO thread.
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| NTCPConnection |
Coordinate the connection to a single peer.
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| NTCPConnection.PrepBuffer | |
| NTCPSendFinisher |
Previously, NTCP was using SimpleTimer with a delay of 0, which
was a real abuse.
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| NTCPTransport |
The NIO TCP transport
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| Reader |
Pool of running threads which will process any read bytes on any of the
NTCPConnections, including the decryption of the data read, connection
handshaking, parsing bytes into I2NP messages, etc.
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| Writer |
Pool of running threads which will transform the next I2NP message into
something ready to be transferred over an NTCP connection, including the
encryption of the data read.
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