Two issues here:
1) ATM, the static route is only visible to the node where the route is
defined. For some reason, the members added by the static route is not
propagated to the group membership. I didn't have chance to fix that.
2) The static route can be used to add members to the group. But the primary
purpose of Tribes is multicast/discovery. Multicast is not always possible
(or easy to configure/use) in an Enterprise environment due to issues such
as VPN, firewalls and multi-homed machines.
Thanks,
Raymond
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From: "ant elder" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:04 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r834683 - in
/tuscany/java/sca/modules/endpoint-zookeeper
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote:
Tribes is simple as multicast is supported by the JDK and no "server"
needs
to be started. There are a few down sides though. For example,
* It is not very enterprise network friendly
By that are you referring to how it currently only support multicast
properly not static routes? The other week you said you were going to
look at fixing the static routes problem, did you do that and find its
hard to fix?
...ant
