What is the difference between SILC server and SILC router?
713 A: The topology of the SILC network includes SILC routers and the SILC 714 servers (and SILC clients of course). Normal SILC server does not have 715 direct connections with other SILC servers. They connect directly to 716 the SILC router. SILC Routers may have several server connections and 717 they may connect to several SILC routers. The SILC routers are the 718 servers in the network that know everything about everything. The SILC 719 servers know only local information and query global information from 720 the router when necessary. 721 722 If you are running SILC server you want to run it as router only if 723 you want to have server connections in it and are prepared to accept 724 server connections. You also need to get the router connected to some 725 other router to be able to join the SILC network. You may run the 726 server as normal SILC server if you do not want to accept other server 727 connections or cannot run it as router.
The topology of the SILC network includes SILC routers and the SILC servers (and SILC clients of course). Normal SILC server does not have direct connections with other SILC servers. They connect directly to the SILC router. SILC Routers may have several server connections and they may connect to several SILC routers. The SILC routers are the servers in the network that know everything about everything. The SILC servers know only local information and query global information from the router when necessary. If you are running SILC server you want to run it as router only if you want to have server connections in it and are prepared to accept server connections. You also need to get the router connected to some other router to be able to join the SILC network. You may run the server as normal SILC server if you do not want to accept other server connections or cannot run it as router.
