Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:33:46 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: AF_BUS socket address family | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:12:22 +0100
> In fact if you look up the stack you'll find a large number of multicast > messaging systems which do reliable transport built on top of IP. In fact > Red Hat provides a high level messaging cluster service that does exactly > this. (as well as dbus which does it on the deskop level) plus a ton of > stuff on top of that (JGroups etc) > > Everybody at the application level has been using these 'receiver > reliable' multicast services for years (Websphere MQ, TIBCO, RTPGM, > OpenPGM, MS-PGM, you name it). There are even accelerators for PGM based > protocols in things like Cisco routers and Solarflare can do much of it > on the card for 10Gbit.
The issue is that what to do when a receiver goes deaf is a policy issue.
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