On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:01:50PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Some highlights from today's investigation into secure RPCs (a topic > which I want to bring to a close as soon as possible). > > * TI-RPC was suggested as an alternative to SunRPC. The available > library has licensing problems which may preclude any integration into > libvirt. > > * SunRPC over IPv6: tested and working > > * Either xmlrpc-c or Curl (which it uses for HTTP connections) cannot > manage to do persistent connections, which makes XML-RPC very slow. I > haven't yet got to the bottom of why this isn't working, since Curl > certainly ought to be able to do keepalives. I would not rely on the 'XML-RPC' library if we go the XML-RPC way, I know libxml2 well enough that I should be able to make sure we keep a single connection and make sure the XML parsing is implemented in a proper and efficient fashion. > * Some performance numbers which you can take with a large grain of salt > are available here: > > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/secure_rpc/#performance > > The other issues are written up in the above document for your browsing > pleasure. Cool, thanks, Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/