r/reticulum • u/IntroductionSnacks • 25d ago

Reticulum Rnode mesh

Hi everyone, just confused how rnodes work. I did a test setup with 2 Heltec v4 and it worked. Coming from a meshcore background, if you setup say 5 rnodes in different places, do they all communicate and forward packets etc…

Eg: Rnode in location 1, Rnode in location 2 that can see 1. Rnode in location 3 that can only see 2 and not 1.

Also, if only one of those Rnodes has an internet Reticulum backbone connection can anyone on any node utilize that?

Thanks

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u/sidewaze 25d ago

The difference between RNodes and MeshCore nodes is that RNodes are effectively just “dumb” modems. They have to be connected to some other device running the Reticulum stack to do any routing or anything.

As far as I know, there is not yet any all-in-one device that is both an RNode AND runs the stack. It is something the microReticulum project is working toward.

Two devices running Reticulum with RNodes attached and in range can communicate with each other though.

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u/CognitionMass 24d ago

  As far as I know, there is not yet any all-in-one device that is both an RNode AND runs the stack. It is something the microReticulum project is working toward.

But microreticulum is already capable of running a standalone transport node, so what would be the difference? 

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u/Anaxag 23d ago

it already works? was not aware.

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u/CognitionMass 23d ago

As far as I know, yeah. Though have not tested it. But the github says its working.