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Re: [Nel] Suggestion for the NeL network library / architecture
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Vincent Archer |
Subject: |
Re: [Nel] Suggestion for the NeL network library / architecture |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:11:10 +0100 |
According to Dim Segebart:
> Hello !
> Just one question.
>
> >From http://pgm.tibco.com/draft-speakman-pgm-spec-04.txt
> >>> PGM runs over a datagram multicast protocol such as IP multicast [5].
>
> AFAIK, many ISP's ban multicast traffic and many users'll be unable to use
> software based on it.
> Am I wrong or missing something ?
> TIA
And Jean-Noel Moyne said:
> network transport for your messaging. That need being for server to
> server communication, not server to client.
Note "server to server". What Jean-Noel was suggesting was not a protocol
to communicate with the clients, but a protocol to communicate between
the various servers that constitute a world cluster.
Since these clusters will be located in a single facility, on a dedicated
switch, the issue of IP filtering do not apply :)
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