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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Instance</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><dl><dd>Manual: <span class="manual-link" title="Manual:Transport Nodes and Instances"><span class="mirror link"><span class="web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reticulum.network/manual/networks.html#transport-nodes-and-instances">Transport Nodes and Instances</a></span><span class="nomadnet">[nomadnetwork://a8d24177d946de4f1f0a0fe1af9a1338:/page/blob.mu`g=reticulum|r=reticulum|ref=HEAD|path=docs/markdown/networks.md|anchor=transport-nodes-and-instances Transport Nodes and Instances]</span></span></span></dd></dl>
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<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><span class="mirror link"><span class="web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum/blob/HEAD/RNS/Reticulum.py">Reticulum.py</a></span><span class="nomadnet">[nomadnetwork://a8d24177d946de4f1f0a0fe1af9a1338:/page/blob.mu`g=reticulum|r=reticulum|ref=HEAD|path=RNS/Reticulum.py Reticulum.py]</span></span></div>
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<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><span class="manual-link" title="Manual:RNS.Reticulum"><span class="mirror link"><span class="web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reticulum.network/manual/reference.html#RNS.Reticulum">RNS.Reticulum</a></span><span class="nomadnet">[nomadnetwork://a8d24177d946de4f1f0a0fe1af9a1338:/page/blob.mu`g=reticulum|r=reticulum|ref=HEAD|path=docs/markdown/reference.md|anchor=RNS.Reticulum RNS.Reticulum]</span></span></span></div>
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<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p><p>An <b>instance</b> is an <a href="Reticulum_Protocol#Implementations" title="Reticulum Protocol">implementation of Reticulum</a> running on a system, making it a <a href="Node" title="Node">node</a> in a Reticulum network. Some instances may <i>also</i> be <a href="Transport_node" title="Transport node">transport nodes</a> and/or <a href="Propagation_node" title="Propagation node">propagation nodes</a>.
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<ul><li><a href="Node" title="Node">Node</a></li>
<li><a href="Transport_node" title="Transport node">Transport node</a></li>
<li><a href="Propagation_node" title="Propagation node">Propagation node</a></li>
<li><a href="RNS#Shared_instance" title="RNS">RNS › Shared instance</a></li>
<li><a href="RNS#Multiple_instances" title="RNS">RNS › Multiple instances</a></li>
<li><a href="Rnstatus" title="Rnstatus">rnstatus</a></li></ul>
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