If you connect a DEALER to multiple endpoints it will distribute messages to 
all of its connections. I think this is a round robin distribution.

If you have some specific logic where you need to choose which server to talk 
to, you would need a router socket so that you can specify the address. You 
could implement this as a separate routing so that your DEALER connects to one 
ROUTER on a broker and then the broker decides which server to talk to. See the 
lbbroker examples, such as:

https://github.com/imatix/zguide/blob/master/examples/C/lbbroker2.c

Cheers,
Matt

On 29 Sep 2013, at 4:25 am, ashish nagar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am using ZEROMQ for distributed messaging application. Need to connect 
> client (DEALER socket) to multiple servers (ROUTER socket on server side). 
> What are my options on CLIENT side ?
> Create DEALER socket on client side for each server endpoint (ROUTER socket).
> Create only ONE DEALER socket on client side and add multiple endpoints.
> I tried option 2 - connecting to multiple endpoints but message always goes 
> to the first connected endpoint. followed following steps: - create DEALER 
> socket - connect to first endpoint - then on the run time, add another 
> endpoint to the socket by using socket.connect(endpoint). Do I need to 
> reconnect?
> In DEALER socket, there is no option to send message on a particular endpoint 
> in case it is connected to multiple endpoints.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks
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