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<span id="using-main"></span><h1>Using Reticulum on Your System<a class="headerlink" href="#using-reticulum-on-your-system" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>Reticulum is not installed as a driver or kernel module, as one might expect
of a networking stack. Instead, Reticulum is distributed as a Python module.
This means that no special privileges are required to install or use it.
Any program or application that uses Reticulum will automatically load and
initialise Reticulum when it starts.</p>
<p>In many cases, this approach is sufficient. When any program needs to use
Reticulum, it is loaded, initialised, interfaces are brought up, and the
program can now communicate over Reticulum. If another program starts up
and also wants access to the same Reticulum network, the instance is simply
shared. This works for any number of programs running concurrently, and is
very easy to use, but depending on your use case, there are other options.</p>
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<h2>Included Utility Programs<a class="headerlink" href="#included-utility-programs" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>If you often use Reticulum from several different programs, or simply want
Reticulum to stay available all the time, for example if you are hosting
a transport node, you might want to run Reticulum as a separate service that
other programs, applications and services can utilise.</p>
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<h3>The rnsd Utility<a class="headerlink" href="#the-rnsd-utility" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>To do so is very easy. Simply run the included <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rnsd</span></code> command. When <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rnsd</span></code>
is running, it will keep all configured interfaces open, handle transport if
it is enabled, and allow any other programs to immediately utilise the
Reticulum network it is configured for.</p>
<p>You can even run multiple instances of rnsd with different configurations on
the same system.</p>
<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># Install Reticulum
pip3 install rns
# Run rnsd
rnsd
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<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>usage: rnsd [-h] [--config CONFIG] [-v] [-q] [--version]
Reticulum Network Stack Daemon
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG path to alternative Reticulum config directory
-v, --verbose
-q, --quiet
--version show program&#39;s version number and exit
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<h3>The rnstatus Utility<a class="headerlink" href="#the-rnstatus-utility" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>Using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rnstatus</span></code> utility, you can view the status of configured Reticulum
interfaces, similar to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ifconfig</span></code> program.</p>
<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># Run rnstatus
rnstatus
# Example output
Shared Instance[37428]
Status: Up
Connected applications: 1
RX: 1.13 KB
TX: 1.07 KB
UDPInterface[Default UDP Interface/0.0.0.0:4242]
Status: Up
RX: 1.01 KB
TX: 1.01 KB
TCPInterface[RNS Testnet Frankfurt/frankfurt.rns.unsigned.io:4965]
Status: Up
RX: 1.37 KB
TX: 9.02 KB
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<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>usage: rnsd [-h] [--config CONFIG] [-v] [-q] [--version]
Reticulum Network Stack Daemon
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG path to alternative Reticulum config directory
-v, --verbose
-q, --quiet
--version show program&#39;s version number and exit
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<h3>The rnpath Utility<a class="headerlink" href="#the-rnpath-utility" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>With the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rnpath</span></code> utility, you can look up and view paths for
destinations on the Reticulum network.</p>
<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># Run rnpath
rnpath eca6f4e4dc26ae329e61
# Example output
Path found, destination &lt;eca6f4e4dc26ae329e61&gt; is 4 hops away via &lt;56b115c30cd386cad69c&gt; on TCPInterface[Testnet/frankfurt.rns.unsigned.io:4965]
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<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>usage: rnpath.py [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--version] [-v] [destination]
Reticulum Path Discovery Utility
positional arguments:
destination hexadecimal hash of the destination
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG path to alternative Reticulum config directory
--version show program&#39;s version number and exit
-v, --verbose
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<h3>The rnprobe Utility<a class="headerlink" href="#the-rnprobe-utility" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rnprobe</span></code> utility lets you probe a destination for connectivity, similar
to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ping</span></code> program. Please note that probes will only be answered if the
specified destination is configured to send proofs for received packets. Many
destinations will not have this option enabled, and will not be probable.</p>
<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># Run rnprobe
python3 -m RNS.Utilities.rnprobe example_utilities.echo.request 9382f334de63217a4278
# Example output
Sent 16 byte probe to &lt;9382f334de63217a4278&gt;
Valid reply received from &lt;9382f334de63217a4278&gt;
Round-trip time is 38.469 milliseconds over 2 hops
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<div class="highlight-text notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>usage: rnprobe.py [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--version] [-v] [full_name] [destination_hash]
Reticulum Probe Utility
positional arguments:
full_name full destination name in dotted notation
destination_hash hexadecimal hash of the destination
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG path to alternative Reticulum config directory
--version show program&#39;s version number and exit
-v, --verbose
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