[rabbitmq-discuss] Symmetric federation behavior

[Busoli, Simone]

Hello,

I've set up a symmetric federation between two brokers A and B, that is, an exchange on one broker acts as the upstream for one on the other broker with the same name and vice versa.
To prevent messages from going into an infinite loop I've set max_hops to 1, but I am under the impression that messages published to broker A and then proxied to broker B are somehow proxied back once again to broker A and just then ignored because of the max_hops setting.
Is this behavior expected? Our rationale for using this kind of symmetrically configured federation is twofold: first to prevent messages to go into loops and secondly to conserve bandwidth by preventing messages to roundtrip from A to B and back, and this second aspect doesn't seem to work correctly right now.

Thanks


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