From a7762da3f86efd86b343f3bfc6632e089b81a117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeromy Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:09:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add note in daemon helptext about new routing type License: MIT Signed-off-by: Jeromy --- cmd/ipfs/daemon.go | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/cmd/ipfs/daemon.go b/cmd/ipfs/daemon.go index 8e9576750d1..38c7fdc7a7e 100644 --- a/cmd/ipfs/daemon.go +++ b/cmd/ipfs/daemon.go @@ -121,6 +121,17 @@ environment variable: export IPFS_PATH=/path/to/ipfsrepo +Routing + +IPFS by default will use a DHT for content routing. There is a highly +experimental alternative that operates the DHT in a 'client only' mode that can +be enabled by running the daemon as: + + ipfs daemon --routing=dhtclient + +This will later be transitioned into a config option once it gets out of the +'experimental' stage. + DEPRECATION NOTICE Previously, IPFS used an environment variable as seen below: