You're right, the reconnection will be refused the right to reuse the
identity. We could change this if you can find a sensible semantic.

-Pieter

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Mark Barbisan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ZeroMQ supports multiple NICs for its sockets. If a client gets disconnected 
> with queued messages, it will automatically try to reconnect with the other 
> available NICs. However, there is a problem if the client has set its socket 
> identity (using ZMQ_IDENTITY). The identity does not change upon reconnect. A 
> server with a ROUTER socket that receives the new client's connection will 
> see the same ZMQ_IDENTITY again. However, since the new incoming connection 
> uses a different address (due to a different NIC) but has the same identity, 
> the ROUTER socket will automatically place it into a list of "anonymous" 
> connections. The client has no way of receiving responses.
>
> Does ZeroMQ provide a facility to reassign identities for the clients of 
> ROUTER sockets?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Mark.
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