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1 =head1 NAME
2
3 AnyEvent::MP::Transport - actual transport protocol handler
4
5 =head1 SYNOPSIS
6
7 use AnyEvent::MP::Transport;
8
9 =head1 DESCRIPTION
10
11 This module implements (and documents) the actual transport protocol for
12 AEMP.
13
14 See the "PROTOCOL" section below if you want to write another client for
15 this protocol.
16
17 =head1 FUNCTIONS/METHODS
18
19 =over 4
20
21 =cut
22
23 package AnyEvent::MP::Transport;
24
25 use common::sense;
26
27 use Scalar::Util ();
28 use List::Util ();
29 use MIME::Base64 ();
30 use Storable ();
31 use JSON::XS ();
32
33 use Digest::MD6 ();
34 use Digest::HMAC_MD6 ();
35
36 use AE ();
37 use AnyEvent::Socket ();
38 use AnyEvent::Handle 4.92 ();
39
40 use AnyEvent::MP::Config ();
41
42 our $PROTOCOL_VERSION = 1;
43
44 our @HOOK_CONNECT; # called at connect/accept time
45 our @HOOK_GREETING; # called at greeting1 time
46 our @HOOK_CONNECTED; # called at data phase
47 our @HOOK_DESTROY; # called at destroy time
48 our %HOOK_PROTOCOL = (
49 "aemp-dataconn" => sub {
50 require AnyEvent::MP::DataConn;
51 &AnyEvent::MP::DataConn::_inject;
52 },
53 );
54
55 =item $listener = mp_listener $host, $port, <constructor-args>
56
57 Creates a listener on the given host/port using
58 C<AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_server>.
59
60 See C<new>, below, for constructor arguments.
61
62 Defaults for peerhost, peerport and fh are provided.
63
64 =cut
65
66 sub mp_server($$;%) {
67 my ($host, $port, %arg) = @_;
68
69 AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_server $host, $port, sub {
70 my ($fh, $host, $port) = @_;
71
72 my $tp = new AnyEvent::MP::Transport
73 fh => $fh,
74 peerhost => $host,
75 peerport => $port,
76 %arg,
77 ;
78 $tp->{keepalive} = $tp;
79 }, delete $arg{prepare}
80 }
81
82 =item $guard = mp_connect $host, $port, <constructor-args>, $cb->($transport)
83
84 =cut
85
86 sub mp_connect {
87 my $release = pop;
88 my ($host, $port, @args) = @_;
89
90 new AnyEvent::MP::Transport
91 connect => [$host, $port],
92 peerhost => $host,
93 peerport => $port,
94 release => $release,
95 @args,
96 ;
97 }
98
99 =item new AnyEvent::MP::Transport
100
101 # immediately starts negotiation
102 my $transport = new AnyEvent::MP::Transport
103 # mandatory
104 fh => $filehandle,
105 local_id => $identifier,
106 on_recv => sub { receive-callback },
107 on_error => sub { error-callback },
108
109 # optional
110 on_eof => sub { clean-close-callback },
111 on_connect => sub { successful-connect-callback },
112 greeting => { key => value },
113
114 # tls support
115 tls_ctx => AnyEvent::TLS,
116 peername => $peername, # for verification
117 ;
118
119 =cut
120
121 sub new {
122 my ($class, %arg) = @_;
123
124 my $self = bless \%arg, $class;
125
126 {
127 Scalar::Util::weaken (my $self = $self);
128
129 my $config = $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::CONFIG;
130
131 my $timeout = $config->{monitor_timeout};
132 my $lframing = $config->{framing_format};
133 my $auth_snd = $config->{auth_offer};
134 my $auth_rcv = $config->{auth_accept};
135
136 $self->{secret} = $config->{secret}
137 unless exists $self->{secret};
138
139 my $secret = $self->{secret};
140
141 if (exists $config->{cert}) {
142 $self->{tls_ctx} = {
143 sslv2 => 0,
144 sslv3 => 0,
145 tlsv1 => 1,
146 verify => 1,
147 cert => $config->{cert},
148 ca_cert => $config->{cert},
149 verify_require_client_cert => 1,
150 };
151 }
152
153 $self->{hdl} = new AnyEvent::Handle
154 +($self->{fh} ? (fh => $self->{fh}) : (connect => $self->{connect})),
155 autocork => $config->{autocork},
156 no_delay => exists $config->{nodelay} ? $config->{nodelay} : 1,
157 keepalive => 1,
158 on_error => sub {
159 $self->error ($_[2]);
160 },
161 rtimeout => $timeout,
162 ;
163
164 my $greeting_kv = $self->{local_greeting} ||= {};
165
166 $greeting_kv->{tls} = "1.0" if $self->{tls_ctx};
167 $greeting_kv->{provider} = "AE-$AnyEvent::MP::VERSION"; # MP.pm might not be loaded, so best effort :(
168 $greeting_kv->{peeraddr} = AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport $self->{peerhost}, $self->{peerport};
169
170 my $protocol = $self->{protocol} || "aemp";
171
172 # can modify greeting_kv
173 $_->($self) for $protocol eq "aemp" ? @HOOK_CONNECT : ();
174
175 # send greeting
176 my $lgreeting1 = "$protocol;$PROTOCOL_VERSION"
177 . ";$AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::NODE"
178 . ";" . (join ",", @$auth_rcv)
179 . ";" . (join ",", @$lframing)
180 . (join "", map ";$_=$greeting_kv->{$_}", keys %$greeting_kv);
181
182 my $lgreeting2 = MIME::Base64::encode_base64 AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::nonce (66), "";
183
184 $self->{hdl}->push_write ("$lgreeting1\012$lgreeting2\012");
185
186 # expect greeting
187 $self->{hdl}->rbuf_max (4 * 1024);
188 $self->{hdl}->push_read (line => sub {
189 my $rgreeting1 = $_[1];
190
191 my ($aemp, $version, $rnode, $auths, $framings, @kv) = split /;/, $rgreeting1;
192
193 $self->{remote_node} = $rnode;
194
195 $self->{remote_greeting} = {
196 map /^([^=]+)(?:=(.*))?/ ? ($1 => $2) : (),
197 @kv
198 };
199
200 # maybe upgrade the protocol
201 if ($protocol eq "aemp" and $aemp =~ /^aemp-\w+$/) {
202 # maybe check for existence of the protocol handler?
203 $self->{protocol} = $protocol = $aemp;
204 }
205
206 $_->($self) for $protocol eq "aemp" ? @HOOK_GREETING : ();
207
208 if ($aemp ne $protocol and $aemp ne "aemp") {
209 return $self->error ("unparsable greeting, expected '$protocol', got '$aemp'");
210 } elsif ($version != $PROTOCOL_VERSION) {
211 return $self->error ("version mismatch (we: $PROTOCOL_VERSION, they: $version)");
212 } elsif ($protocol eq "aemp") {
213 if ($rnode eq $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::NODE) {
214 return $self->error ("I refuse to talk to myself");
215 } elsif ($AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::NODE{$rnode} && $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::NODE{$rnode}{transport}) {
216 return $self->error ("$rnode already connected, not connecting again.");
217 }
218 }
219
220 # read nonce
221 $self->{hdl}->push_read (line => sub {
222 my $rgreeting2 = $_[1];
223
224 "$lgreeting1\012$lgreeting2" ne "$rgreeting1\012$rgreeting2" # echo attack?
225 or return $self->error ("authentication error, echo attack?");
226
227 my $tls = $self->{tls_ctx} && 1 == int $self->{remote_greeting}{tls};
228
229 my $s_auth;
230 for my $auth_ (split /,/, $auths) {
231 if (grep $auth_ eq $_, @$auth_snd and ($auth_ !~ /^tls_/ or $tls)) {
232 $s_auth = $auth_;
233 last;
234 }
235 }
236
237 defined $s_auth
238 or return $self->error ("$auths: no common auth type supported");
239
240 my $s_framing;
241 for my $framing_ (split /,/, $framings) {
242 if (grep $framing_ eq $_, @$lframing) {
243 $s_framing = $framing_;
244 last;
245 }
246 }
247
248 defined $s_framing
249 or return $self->error ("$framings: no common framing method supported");
250
251 my $key;
252 my $lauth;
253
254 if ($tls) {
255 $self->{tls} = $lgreeting2 lt $rgreeting2 ? "connect" : "accept";
256 $self->{hdl}->starttls ($self->{tls}, $self->{tls_ctx});
257 return unless $self->{hdl}; # starttls might destruct us
258
259 $lauth =
260 $s_auth eq "tls_anon" ? ""
261 : $s_auth eq "tls_md6_64_256" ? Digest::MD6::md6_hex "$lgreeting1\012$lgreeting2\012$rgreeting1\012$rgreeting2\012"
262 : return $self->error ("$s_auth: fatal, selected unsupported snd auth method");
263
264 } elsif (length $secret) {
265 return $self->error ("$s_auth: fatal, selected unsupported snd auth method")
266 unless $s_auth eq "hmac_md6_64_256"; # hardcoded atm.
267
268 $key = Digest::MD6::md6 $secret;
269 # we currently only support hmac_md6_64_256
270 $lauth = Digest::HMAC_MD6::hmac_md6_hex $key, "$lgreeting1\012$lgreeting2\012$rgreeting1\012$rgreeting2\012", 64, 256;
271
272 } else {
273 return $self->error ("unable to handshake TLS and no shared secret configured");
274 }
275
276 $self->{hdl}->push_write ("$s_auth;$lauth;$s_framing\012");
277
278 # read the authentication response
279 $self->{hdl}->push_read (line => sub {
280 my ($hdl, $rline) = @_;
281
282 my ($auth_method, $rauth2, $r_framing) = split /;/, $rline;
283
284 my $rauth =
285 $auth_method eq "hmac_md6_64_256" ? Digest::HMAC_MD6::hmac_md6_hex $key, "$rgreeting1\012$rgreeting2\012$lgreeting1\012$lgreeting2\012", 64, 256
286 : $auth_method eq "cleartext" ? unpack "H*", $secret
287 : $auth_method eq "tls_anon" ? ($tls ? "" : "\012\012") # \012\012 never matches
288 : $auth_method eq "tls_md6_64_256" ? ($tls ? Digest::MD6::md6_hex "$rgreeting1\012$rgreeting2\012$lgreeting1\012$lgreeting2\012" : "\012\012")
289 : return $self->error ("$auth_method: fatal, selected unsupported rcv auth method");
290
291 if ($rauth2 ne $rauth) {
292 return $self->error ("authentication failure/shared secret mismatch");
293 }
294
295 $self->{s_framing} = $s_framing;
296
297 $hdl->rbuf_max (undef);
298
299 # we rely on TCP retransmit timeouts and keepalives
300 $self->{hdl}->rtimeout (undef);
301
302 $self->{remote_greeting}{untrusted} = 1
303 if $auth_method eq "tls_anon";
304
305 $self->connected;
306
307 if ($protocol eq "aemp" and $self->{hdl}) {
308 # listener-less node need to continuously probe
309 unless (@$AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::LISTENER) {
310 $self->{hdl}->wtimeout ($timeout);
311 $self->{hdl}->on_wtimeout (sub { $self->send ([]) });
312 }
313
314 # receive handling
315 my $src_node = $self->{node};
316 Scalar::Util::weaken $src_node;
317
318 if ($r_framing eq "\njsonxyz") {#d#
319 } else {
320 my $rmsg; $rmsg = $self->{rmsg} = sub {
321 $_[0]->push_read ($r_framing => $rmsg);
322
323 local $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::SRCNODE = $src_node;
324 AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::_inject (@{ $_[1] });
325 };
326 eval {
327 $hdl->push_read ($r_framing => $rmsg);
328 };
329 Scalar::Util::weaken $rmsg;
330 return $self->error ("$r_framing: unusable remote framing")
331 if $@;
332 }
333 }
334 });
335 });
336 });
337 }
338
339 $self
340 }
341
342 sub error {
343 my ($self, $msg) = @_;
344
345 delete $self->{keepalive};
346
347 if ($self->{protocol}) {
348 $HOOK_PROTOCOL{$self->{protocol}}->($self, $msg);
349 } else {
350 $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::WARN->(9, "$self->{peerhost}:$self->{peerport} $msg");#d#
351
352 $self->{node}->transport_error (transport_error => $self->{node}{id}, $msg)
353 if $self->{node} && $self->{node}{transport} == $self;
354 }
355
356 (delete $self->{release})->()
357 if exists $self->{release};
358
359 # $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::WARN->(7, "$self->{peerhost}:$self->{peerport}: $msg");
360 $self->destroy;
361 }
362
363 sub connected {
364 my ($self) = @_;
365
366 delete $self->{keepalive};
367
368 if ($self->{protocol}) {
369 $self->{hdl}->on_error (undef);
370 $HOOK_PROTOCOL{$self->{protocol}}->($self, undef);
371 } else {
372 $AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::WARN->(9, "$self->{peerhost}:$self->{peerport} connected as $self->{remote_node}");
373
374 my $node = AnyEvent::MP::Kernel::add_node ($self->{remote_node});
375 Scalar::Util::weaken ($self->{node} = $node);
376 $node->transport_connect ($self);
377
378 $_->($self) for @HOOK_CONNECTED;
379 }
380
381 (delete $self->{release})->()
382 if exists $self->{release};
383 }
384
385 sub send {
386 $_[0]{hdl}->push_write ($_[0]{s_framing} => $_[1]);
387 }
388
389 sub destroy {
390 my ($self) = @_;
391
392 (delete $self->{release})->()
393 if exists $self->{release};
394
395 $self->{hdl}->destroy
396 if $self->{hdl};
397
398 $_->($self) for $self->{protocol} ? () : @HOOK_DESTROY;
399 }
400
401 sub DESTROY {
402 my ($self) = @_;
403
404 $self->destroy;
405 }
406
407 =back
408
409 =head1 PROTOCOL
410
411 The AEMP protocol is comparatively simple, and consists of three phases
412 which are symmetrical for both sides: greeting (followed by optionally
413 switching to TLS mode), authentication and packet exchange.
414
415 The protocol is designed to allow both full-text and binary streams.
416
417 The greeting consists of two text lines that are ended by either an ASCII
418 CR LF pair, or a single ASCII LF (recommended).
419
420 =head2 GREETING
421
422 All the lines until after authentication must not exceed 4kb in length,
423 including line delimiter. Afterwards there is no limit on the packet size
424 that can be received.
425
426 =head3 First Greeting Line
427
428 Example:
429
430 aemp;0;rain;tls_md6_64_256,hmac_md6_64_256,tls_anon,cleartext;json,storable;timeout=12;peeraddr=10.0.0.1:48082
431
432 The first line contains strings separated (not ended) by C<;>
433 characters. The first five strings are fixed by the protocol, the
434 remaining strings are C<KEY=VALUE> pairs. None of them may contain C<;>
435 characters themselves (when escaping is needed, use C<%3b> to represent
436 C<;> and C<%25> to represent C<%>)-
437
438 The fixed strings are:
439
440 =over 4
441
442 =item protocol identification
443
444 The constant C<aemp> to identify this protocol.
445
446 =item protocol version
447
448 The protocol version supported by this end, currently C<1>. If the
449 versions don't match then no communication is possible. Minor extensions
450 are supposed to be handled through additional key-value pairs.
451
452 =item the node ID
453
454 This is the node ID of the connecting node.
455
456 =item the acceptable authentication methods
457
458 A comma-separated list of authentication methods supported by the
459 node. Note that AnyEvent::MP supports a C<hex_secret> authentication
460 method that accepts a clear-text password (hex-encoded), but will not use
461 this authentication method itself.
462
463 The receiving side should choose the first authentication method it
464 supports.
465
466 =item the acceptable framing formats
467
468 A comma-separated list of packet encoding/framing formats understood. The
469 receiving side should choose the first framing format it supports for
470 sending packets (which might be different from the format it has to accept).
471
472 =back
473
474 The remaining arguments are C<KEY=VALUE> pairs. The following key-value
475 pairs are known at this time:
476
477 =over 4
478
479 =item provider=<module-version>
480
481 The software provider for this implementation. For AnyEvent::MP, this is
482 C<AE-0.0> or whatever version it currently is at.
483
484 =item peeraddr=<host>:<port>
485
486 The peer address (socket address of the other side) as seen locally.
487
488 =item tls=<major>.<minor>
489
490 Indicates that the other side supports TLS (version should be 1.0) and
491 wishes to do a TLS handshake.
492
493 =back
494
495 =head3 Second Greeting Line
496
497 After this greeting line there will be a second line containing a
498 cryptographic nonce, i.e. random data of high quality. To keep the
499 protocol text-only, these are usually 32 base64-encoded octets, but
500 it could be anything that doesn't contain any ASCII CR or ASCII LF
501 characters.
502
503 I<< The two nonces B<must> be different, and an aemp implementation
504 B<must> check and fail when they are identical >>.
505
506 Example of a nonce line (yes, it's random-looking because it is random
507 data):
508
509 2XYhdG7/O6epFa4wuP0ujAEx1rXYWRcOypjUYK7eF6yWAQr7gwIN9m/2+mVvBrTPXz5GJDgfGm9d8QRABAbmAP/s
510
511 =head2 TLS handshake
512
513 I<< If, after the handshake, both sides indicate interest in TLS, then the
514 connection B<must> use TLS, or fail to continue. >>
515
516 Both sides compare their nonces, and the side who sent the lower nonce
517 value ("string" comparison on the raw octet values) becomes the client,
518 and the one with the higher nonce the server.
519
520 =head2 AUTHENTICATION PHASE
521
522 After the greeting is received (and the optional TLS handshake),
523 the authentication phase begins, which consists of sending a single
524 C<;>-separated line with three fixed strings and any number of
525 C<KEY=VALUE> pairs.
526
527 The three fixed strings are:
528
529 =over 4
530
531 =item the authentication method chosen
532
533 This must be one of the methods offered by the other side in the greeting.
534
535 Note that all methods starting with C<tls_> are only valid I<iff> TLS was
536 successfully handshaked (and to be secure the implementation must enforce
537 this).
538
539 The currently supported authentication methods are:
540
541 =over 4
542
543 =item cleartext
544
545 This is simply the shared secret, lowercase-hex-encoded. This method is of
546 course very insecure if TLS is not used (and not completely secure even
547 if TLS is used), which is why this module will accept, but not generate,
548 cleartext auth replies.
549
550 =item hmac_md6_64_256
551
552 This method uses an MD6 HMAC with 64 bit blocksize and 256 bit hash, and
553 requires a shared secret. It is the preferred auth method when a shared
554 secret is available.
555
556 First, the shared secret is hashed with MD6:
557
558 key = MD6 (secret)
559
560 This secret is then used to generate the "local auth reply", by taking
561 the two local greeting lines and the two remote greeting lines (without
562 line endings), appending \012 to all of them, concatenating them and
563 calculating the MD6 HMAC with the key:
564
565 lauth = HMAC_MD6 key, "lgreeting1\012lgreeting2\012rgreeting1\012rgreeting2\012"
566
567 This authentication token is then lowercase-hex-encoded and sent to the
568 other side.
569
570 Then the remote auth reply is generated using the same method, but local
571 and remote greeting lines swapped:
572
573 rauth = HMAC_MD6 key, "rgreeting1\012rgreeting2\012lgreeting1\012lgreeting2\012"
574
575 This is the token that is expected from the other side.
576
577 =item tls_anon
578
579 This type is only valid I<iff> TLS was enabled and the TLS handshake
580 was successful. It has no authentication data, as the server/client
581 certificate was successfully verified.
582
583 This authentication type is somewhat insecure, as it allows a
584 man-in-the-middle attacker to change some of the connection parameters
585 (such as the framing format), although there is no known attack that
586 exploits this in a way that is worse than just denying the service.
587
588 By default, this implementation accepts but never generates this auth
589 reply.
590
591 =item tls_md6_64_256
592
593 This type is only valid I<iff> TLS was enabled and the TLS handshake was
594 successful.
595
596 This authentication type simply calculates:
597
598 lauth = MD6 "rgreeting1\012rgreeting2\012lgreeting1\012lgreeting2\012"
599
600 and lowercase-hex encodes the result and sends it as authentication
601 data. No shared secret is required (authentication is done by TLS). The
602 checksum exists only to make tinkering with the greeting hard.
603
604 =back
605
606 =item the authentication data
607
608 The authentication data itself, usually base64 or hex-encoded data, see
609 above.
610
611 =item the framing protocol chosen
612
613 This must be one of the framing protocols offered by the other side in the
614 greeting. Each side must accept the choice of the other side, and generate
615 packets in the format it chose itself.
616
617 =back
618
619 Example of an authentication reply:
620
621 hmac_md6_64_256;363d5175df38bd9eaddd3f6ca18aa1c0c4aa22f0da245ac638d048398c26b8d3;json
622
623 =head2 DATA PHASE
624
625 After this, packets get exchanged using the chosen framing protocol. It is
626 quite possible that both sides use a different framing protocol.
627
628 =head2 FULL EXAMPLE
629
630 This is an actual protocol dump of a handshake, followed by a single data
631 packet. The greater than/less than lines indicate the direction of the
632 transfer only.
633
634 > aemp;0;anon/57Cs1CggVJjzYaQp13XXg4;tls_md6_64_256,hmac_md6_64_256,tls_anon,cleartext;json,storable;provider=AE-0.8;timeout=12;peeraddr=10.0.0.17:4040
635 > yLgdG1ov/02shVkVQer3wzeuywZK+oraTdEQBmIqWHaegxSGDG4g+HqogLQbvdypFOsoDWJ1Sh4ImV4DMhvUBwTK
636
637 < aemp;0;ruth;tls_md6_64_256,hmac_md6_64_256,tls_anon,cleartext;json,storable;provider=AE-0.8;timeout=12;peeraddr=10.0.0.1:37108
638 < +xMQXP8ElfNmuvEhsmcp+s2wCJOuQAsPxSg3d2Ewhs6gBnJz+ypVdWJ/wAVrXqlIJfLeVS/CBy4gEGkyWHSuVb1L
639
640 > hmac_md6_64_256;5ad913855742ae5a03a5aeb7eafa4c78629de136bed6acd73eea36c9e98df44a;json
641
642 < hmac_md6_64_256;84cd590976f794914c2ca26dac3a207a57a6798b9171289c114de07cf0c20401;json
643 < ["","AnyEvent::MP::_spawn","57Cs1CggVJjzYaQp13XXg4.c","AnyEvent::MP::Global::connect",0,"anon/57Cs1CggVJjzYaQp13XXg4"]
644 ...
645
646 The shared secret in use was C<8ugxrtw6H5tKnfPWfaSr4HGhE8MoJXmzTT1BWq7sLutNcD0IbXprQlZjIbl7MBKoeklG3IEfY9GlJthC0pENzk>.
647
648 =head2 SIMPLE HANDSHAKE FOR NON-PERL NODES
649
650 Implementing the full set of options for handshaking can be a daunting
651 task.
652
653 If security is not so important (because you only connect locally and
654 control the host, a common case), and you want to interface with an AEMP
655 node from another programming language, then you can also implement a
656 simplified handshake.
657
658 For example, in a simple implementation you could decide to simply not
659 check the authenticity of the other side and use cleartext authentication
660 yourself. The the handshake is as simple as sending three lines of text,
661 reading three lines of text, and then you can exchange JSON-formatted
662 messages:
663
664 aemp;1;<nodename>;hmac_md6_64_256;json
665 <nonce>
666 cleartext;<hexencoded secret>;json
667
668 The nodename should be unique within the network, preferably unique with
669 every connection, the <nonce> could be empty or some random data, and the
670 hexencoded secret would be the shared secret, in lowercase hex (e.g. if
671 the secret is "geheim", the hex-encoded version would be "67656865696d").
672
673 Note that apart from the low-level handshake and framing protocol, there
674 is a high-level protocol, e.g. for monitoring, building the mesh or
675 spawning. All these messages are sent to the node port (the empty string)
676 and can safely be ignored if you do not need the relevant functionality.
677
678 =head3 USEFUL HINTS
679
680 Since taking part in the global protocol to find port groups is
681 nontrivial, hardcoding port names should be considered as well, i.e. the
682 non-Perl node could simply listen to messages for a few well-known ports.
683
684 Alternatively, the non-Perl node could call a (already loaded) function
685 in the Perl node by sending it a special message:
686
687 ["", "Some::Function::name", "myownport", 1, 2, 3]
688
689 This would call the function C<Some::Function::name> with the string
690 C<myownport> and some additional arguments.
691
692 =head2 MONITORING
693
694 Monitoring the connection itself is transport-specific. For TCP, all
695 connection monitoring is currently left to TCP retransmit time-outs
696 on a busy link, and TCP keepalive (which should be enabled) for idle
697 connections.
698
699 This is not sufficient for listener-less nodes, however: they need
700 to regularly send data (30 seconds, or the monitoring interval, is
701 recommended), so TCP actively probes.
702
703 Future implementations of AnyEvent::Transport might query the kernel TCP
704 buffer after a write timeout occurs, and if it is non-empty, shut down the
705 connections, but this is an area of future research :)
706
707 =head2 NODE PROTOCOL
708
709 The transport simply transfers messages, but to implement a full node, a
710 special node port must exist that understands a number of requests.
711
712 If you are interested in implementing this, drop us a note so we finish
713 the documentation.
714
715 =head1 SEE ALSO
716
717 L<AnyEvent::MP>.
718
719 =head1 AUTHOR
720
721 Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
722 http://home.schmorp.de/
723
724 =cut
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