@Esa, are these documents recent? I am currently using ZMQ_PAIR sockets and they do reconnect quite well.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:05 PM Esa HekmatiZadeh <esa.hek...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James > According to zguide: > >> When you want to coordinate a set of nodes on a network, PAIR sockets >> won't work well any more. This is one of the few areas where the strategies >> for threads and nodes are different. Principally, nodes come and go whereas >> threads are usually static. PAIR sockets do not automatically reconnect if >> the remote node goes away and comes back. >> > As I understand from the above quote; Thanks to these characteristics PAIR > socket is more suitable for inproc environment where threads are statics > however you can use PAIR sockets over TCP as long as you aware and accept > the behavior of PAIR which does not reconnect. > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Attila Magyari <att...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As I understood, the documents are outdated, and ZMQ_PAIR is supposed to >> work not only for inproc protocols. I am definitely not sure about this, >> and I as well use it for TCP, so would be interested in the answers. >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 12:40 PM James Harvey <jhar...@factset.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I have been using ZMQ_PAIR recently for a one to one data feed over >>> TCP. I know the documentation doesn’t explicitly say this should work >>> (over TCP) but for the most part it does. Last week I came across a >>> situation where the bind end of the connection had reconnection issues if >>> no data is flowing during the bounce of the TCP connection. >>> >>> >>> >>> Before I go to the trouble of recreating/documenting the behavior (I >>> won’t call it a bug at this point) I want to know if there is support in >>> the zeromq community for ZMQ_PAIR to be supported over TCP? As far as I can >>> tell the documentation doesn’t explicitly say either way. >>> >>> >>> >>> I know there are other patterns (PUB/SUB, PUSH/PULL) that support TCP >>> but they are not as simple as the ZMQ_PAIR where you want a strict bi >>> directional one to one relationship. >>> >>> >>> >>> If it’s the case that ZMQ_PAIR is only to be used over inproc then maybe >>> the connect/bind should fail for anything other than inproc so people don’t >>> make mistakes and assume it’s going to work. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> James >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zeromq-dev mailing list >>> zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org >>> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org >> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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