On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > You might want to look at TIPC http://sourceforge.net/projects/tipc > that is working on reliable cluster communication. > > There are two completely different domains where multicast is important. To clarify for other readers: TIPC is unrelated to reliable multicast. It's a alternative protocol to TCP that reduces the number of packets exchanged for connection setup and teardown. > In small cluster environments on a single LAN, the problem has been solved > many times. I would use different words: "There have been multiple approaches and implementations, some of which have even worked (in specific environments)." > ... the problem remains a research topic > ... it would be easier to build these complex protocols in userland. I'll leave that as the bottom-line, take-away message. -- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
