Currently, Reticulum distinguishes between two types of network nodes. All nodes on a Reticulum network are Reticulum Instances, and some are alo Transport Nodes. If a system running Reticulum is fixed in one place, and is intended to be kept available most of the time, it is a good contender to be a Transport Node.

Any Reticulum Instance can become a Transport Node by enabling it in the configuration. This distinction is made by the user configuring the node, and is used to determine what nodes on the network will help forward traffic, and what nodes rely on other nodes for wider connectivity.

If a node is an Instance it should be given the configuration directive enable_transport = No, which is the default setting.

If it is a Transport Node, it should be given the configuration directive enable_transport = Yes.

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