Thanks for the clarification Diva, me jumping in too quickly I guess. I didn't think a standalone accepted region registration requests from other opensim.exe's, but that you needed robust.exe to accept registrations from other opensim.exe's. I know that opensim.exe handles all the services when in standalone - but thought it was "cut down" and didn't support external region registrations. I take it from what you say it can do that? I've never even tried tbh.
What you say about owners not supporting ad-hoc regions being connected is of course true but that is a policy issue and enforced by firewall rules. As far as I am aware robust.exe WILL accept a registration request from other opensim.exe's if the port to it is left open. Of course, I may well be wrong with that but when I asked about this before (if there was any way to stop people registering with my grid - I was told I had to block the port and that would be the way to do it). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Diva Canto Sent: 18 August 2011 20:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Awaiting region handshake > I believe you can create as many regions as you like in a standalone > but you are the only person that can go there I have created both and > to have other ppl come to visit you need to be a grid This is not correct. Standalones can handle users from anywhere in the world, as long as the routers are configured for that. > Basically, a standalone does not allow others to connect their region > to your simulator, while a grid does. This has nothing to do with > people visiting it. This is also not correct. Most grids are operated by one single organization/person and don't support the attachment of ad-hoc regions operated by others. OSGrid is an exception in this respect. The difference between a standalone and a grid is simply the number of components (usually hardware) involved. A standalone has all services running in one single process in one single machine; a grid has many simulator processes, usually on different machines, and it typically centralizes resource management in yet other machine(s). So if you just want a small world with a few thousand objects in world at any given time, stay with a standalone; if you plan to scale up, look into the grid configuration. _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
