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| // configuring-link-routing.adoc |
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| [id='understanding-link-routing-{context}'] |
| = Understanding link routing |
| Link routing provides an alternative strategy for brokered messaging. A link route represents a private messaging path between a sender and a receiver in which the router passes the messages between end points. You can think of a link route as a "virtual connection" or "tunnel" that travels from a sender, through the router network, to a receiver. |
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| With link routing, routing is performed on link-attach frames, which are chained together to form a virtual messaging path that directly connects a sender and receiver. Once a link route is established, the transfer of message deliveries, flow frames, and dispositions is performed across the link route. |
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| include::../../modules/user-guide/link-routing-flow-control.adoc[leveloffset=+1] |
| include::../../modules/user-guide/link-route-addresses.adoc[leveloffset=+1] |
| include::../../modules/user-guide/routing-patterns-link-routing.adoc[leveloffset=+1] |
