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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

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-04  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ 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 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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