Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:38:17 -0500 (EST) | From | jamal <> | Subject | Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets? |
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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.
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