On 2/11/10, Steven McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 February 2010 02:12, Martin Sustrik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I would imagine that a socket type that round robin distributes to a >> > set of endpoints, would just skip >> > any endpoint that disconnects? What about reply/request queues or >> multicast? >> >> REQ/REP doesn't work over multicast right now. I haven't seen a >> compelling use case for the functionality by the way. If you have one, >> please do share it. >> >> > Note that REQ/REP over multicast is the most popular communication paradigm > over TIBCO Rendezvous. Multicast brings the following advantages: > > * Location independence - the client doesn't need to know where the server > is. > * Fault tolerance and load sharing - the servers decide between themselves > how to handle requests whether primary-secondary or sharding of topic > namespace. You can transparently bounce servers without updating state in > the clients.
I could imagine that this would be useful to us in certain situations. Cheers, Brian > -- > Steve-o > -- Brian E. Granger, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physics Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
