Adding propagation to a Reticulum transport node

Further configuring our VPS Reticulum node to act as a propagation node in case clients are more or less offline

Install LXMF

pip3 install lxmf

Run LXMF as a propagation node

lxmd --propagation-node

• Copy the destination hash, you’ll want to use it in your client.
  • In MeshChatX, paste it into Settings -> Preferred Propagation Node
  • In Sideband, paste it into Preferences -> LXMF Propagation Node

Add to systemd to start automatically

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/lxmd.service

Content:

[Unit]  
Description=LXMF Propagation Node  
After=rnsd.service  
  
[Service]  
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/lxmd --propagation-node  
Restart=always  
User=root  
  
[Install]  
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable, start and check the daemon

sudo systemctl daemon-reload  
sudo systemctl enable lxmd  
sudo systemctl start lxmd
sudo systemctl status lxmd

Testing

Restart your interface(s) or whole client. - For MeshChatX, Enabling or Disabling an Interface will bring up a “Restart interfaces” option at the top of the Interfaces page.

If you have two nodes, turn one off. (In MeshChatX, you can also just disable all interfaces.)

Send a message from the connected node.

The message state should show a clock on MeshChatX to show it’s successfully sent for propagation but is pending final delivery to the intended identity.

Re-enable the interface(s) on MeshChatX (or otherwise reconnect the disconnected client) and queued messages should be delivered.

Backlinks

• Steps for creating a node