Re: [zeromq-dev] Understanding Broker

2015-01-09 Thread Pieter Hintjens
You can change anything you like. Be clear about the semantics however. The load balancing broker is sending requests for action to workers. It's not a symmetric flow. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:24 AM, Kenneth Adam Miller kennethadammil...@gmail.com wrote: Can the mechanism of load balancing

Re: [zeromq-dev] Understanding Broker

2015-01-09 Thread Kenneth Adam Miller
I thought that the tidbits that were being received on the end of the broker at the front end and backend (I'm talking about how in the guide it refers to some of what is received as address and empty) were required because of something to do with ZMQ internals-as though the address received, and

Re: [zeromq-dev] Understanding Broker

2015-01-09 Thread Kenneth Adam Miller
Because, I was confused as to how Router sockets could continue an exchange with a single REQ socket in a common context; I thought that they had to obey some kind of semantics similar to REQ/REP-you send one and you recv one... It just remembers who all connects to it? On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at

Re: [zeromq-dev] Understanding Broker

2015-01-08 Thread Kenneth Adam Miller
Can the mechanism of load balancing broker be changed so that exactly the same send/recv pattern is followed regardless of which side connects? On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Pieter Hintjens p...@imatix.com wrote: In the lbbroker example all traffic flows through the broker. On Thu, Jan 8,

[zeromq-dev] Understanding Broker

2015-01-08 Thread Kenneth Adam Miller
Does the broker demonstrated in the manual under: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#A-Load-Balancing-Message-Broker demonstrate that A) when each end makes a connection request, after they link up from the broker, their messages route directly between one another In this scenario, the messages