14. Additional Features

The function (char *)_gm_get_route(port, node_id, length_p) returns a pointer to the route to the network host with GM ID node_id and stores the length of the route in *length_p (4).

In the future, a standard mechanism for determining the type of a remote node will be specified. It will involve sending a request to the node to return the type to avoid storing types for all remote nodes in local memory.