[Spread-users] retrans problem: UDP tests

[Jonathan Stanton]

Hi,

The short answer to question 2 is that no, that isn't possible the way
you present it. Spread will register both segments, but a particular
host can only be in one of them, so which ever address occurs first in
the file will be used. 

The closest thing I know of is a 'multipath' patch developed for Spread
that sends all of the messages accross two parallel networks (so two
broadcast/multicast addresses I think) for fault-tolerance reasons. The
patch can be found on the devel page of www.spread.org.

Can you say why you are trying to accomplish this? Maybe your end-goal
could be done a different way that would work. 

Something similar that is commonly done with Spread is to run two
daemons on the same machine and have each send/listen on different
multicast addresses and ports and thus communicate with different
subsets of the machines on the network. Especially with logging
services, this approach can work as the log records are rarely
inter-related and so ordering guaranteees are not needed for log
messages coming from different hosts.

Jonathan

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:18:15AM +0200, Martin Decker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> two questions:
> 
> 1) thanks for the hint to tst lowlevel udp with ./r and ./s. I found out that 
> one host has a miss rate of 15%, whereas the other has only 2%. I will have a 
> look at that machine now.
> 
> 2) is it possible to configure one spread daemon to work with 2 mulicast 
> adresses?
> 
> I want one host to be the sender to two multicast addresses, with 2 receivers 
> in each addresss.
> 
> Spread_Segment 226.1.1.7:5803 {
>     dev907-green      192.168.101.186
>     dev908-green        192.168.101.187
>     dev912            192.168.101.189
> }
> 
> Spread_Segment 226.0.0.6:4803 {
>     dev911            192.168.101.188
>     dev912            192.168.101.189
> }
> 
> is that possible?
> 
> It seems that in the log file, only the first segment is listed, and the 
> second multicast address is listed without members.
> 
> Martin
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Jonathan R. Stanton         jonathan at cs.jhu.edu
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