[Spread-users] Some basic questions

[John Lane Schultz]

John Lane Schultz wrote:
> When a client connects 
> remotely to a daemon and it sends or receives a message that message 
> traverses the network multiple times: once from a sending client to the 
> daemon, at least once between the daemons, once to each receiving daemons.

Woops, that last fragment should read "once to each receiving client."


> So if you ran your configuration with only a single daemon in the LAN 
> and all clients connecting remotely then each message would go on the 
> network N times where N is the number of receiving clients in the 
> system.


Technically, that should be "at least N+1 times."  The plus one being the initial send by the originating client.  There is no additional send by the daemon because it is alone and realizes that.

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