On 04/13/2011 08:53 AM, Paul Colomiets wrote: > Yes, you can say that this is covered by IP. But isn't what covered by IP is > also covered by ethernet?
IP solves a well defined problem: How to integrate arbitrary amount of Ethernets into a single addressable network. We need a similar definition for "route-to-address" pattern in 0MQ. > What we want is logical addresses at zeromq level, which means both > the possibility that two services would be on same machine, and the > posibility that two machines will be used as a single logical node. > > Same happens with the network at every level: we theoretically could leave > with single site per ip and give a machine several IP adresses, but usually > we use domain names to both: group sites on single IP and load-balance > single site to different IPs. Ah, I should have said IP+DNS rather than just IP. Sorry. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
