Pieter, > Good point. The DEALER socket will reconnect, yes. In the text of the > Guide, where we discuss mdwrkapi, it says: > > "You might wonder why the worker API is manually closing its socket > and opening a new one, when 0MQ will automatically reconnect a socket > if the peer disappears and comes back. Look back at the Simple Pirate > and Paranoid Pirate workers to understand. Although 0MQ will > automatically reconnect workers if the broker dies and comes back up, > this isn't sufficient to re-register the workers with the broker. I > know of at least two solutions. The simplest, which we use here, is > for the worker to monitor the connection using heartbeats, and if it > decides the broker is dead, to close its socket and start afresh with > a new socket. The alternative is for the broker to challenge unknown > workers when it gets a heartbeat from the worker and ask them to > re-register. That would require protocol support."
Sorry missed that part. Next time I'll try to read better. Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
