On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Matias GUIJARRO <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> - why do the FLP (Freelance Protocol) specify to use ROUTER (XREP?)
> sockets for both server and client ? Naively I would have used XREP
> for the server and XREQ for the client in a kind of RPC scheme.
>
>
Martin's doc is worth a read, but just to say in this particular case (well,
at least for the first version of freelancer) the client uses XREP because
it needs to address a specific alive server out of N possibly dead servers.
XREQ would just round-robin between all connected services.

Ian
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