From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>, "" <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>,
"" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:38:17 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030303212628.M67734@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046734165.27924.263.camel@eggis1>
Hi Terje,
On Mon, 4 Mar 2003, Terje Eggestad wrote:
> How do you design a protocol that uses multicast to send a request to do
> work?
>
> All uses I can think of right now of multicast/broadcast is:
> * Discovery, like in NIS.
> * Announcements like in OSPF.
> * update like in NTP broadcast
>
I know we are digressing away from main discussion ...
The concept of reliable multicast is known to be useful.
Look at(for some sample apps):
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rmt-charter.html
But we are talking about a distributed system in that context.
Agreed, reliability and multicast do not always make sense.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-27 20:09 anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets? Chris Friesen
2003-02-27 22:21 ` Greg Daley
2003-02-28 13:33 ` jamal
2003-02-28 14:39 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-01 3:18 ` jamal
2003-03-02 6:03 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-02 14:11 ` jamal
2003-03-03 18:02 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 0:05 ` Michael Richardson
2003-03-03 1:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-03 1:00 ` Jeff Dike
2003-03-03 18:11 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 12:51 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 12:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 17:09 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 16:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 18:07 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 17:56 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 19:11 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 18:56 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 19:42 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 21:32 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 23:38 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 19:39 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 22:29 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 23:29 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-04 2:38 ` jamal [this message]
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2003-03-03 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
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