[Spread-users] newbye question about spread: topology

[Ryan Caudy]

It depends a bit on what you're doing.  However, in general, it's better 
to have N daemons.  This is because daemon-daemon communication is 
multicast, while daemon-client communication is unicast.  Also, we 
generally recommend that clients connect locally to a daemon on the same 
host, so that they don't have to send their traffic over the network.

--Ryan

Piero Campanelli wrote:

> Suppose to have N clients on a LAN. Is it better to use N daemon or just
> one?
> 
> In other words it's better to have one spread daemon as following:
> 
> Spread_Segment  10.15.30.255:4803 {
> 
> 	server	10.15.30.191
> }
> 
> and every client connecting to this.
> 
> Or is it better to have N daemons, one for each client machine?
> 
> Spread_Segment  10.15.30.255:4803 {
> 
> 	machine1	10.15.30.191
> 	machine2	10.15.30.192
> 	machine3	10.15.30.193
> 	machine4	10.15.30.194
> 
> }
> 	
> 
> What's the difference ?
> 
> tnx
> 
> 
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-- 
Ryan W. Caudy
Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University