[Spread-users] network configuration

[KRIEGER Nicolas]

Thank's for your answer

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Gillen <mgillen at bbn.com>
Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 9:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Spread-users] network configuration

> KRIEGER Nicolas wrote:
> > In fact, there are only two machines who have to communicate. If 
> there> is a failure, the reslut is the same for both 
> configurations. Is there
> > any advantage of using one configuration than the other with only 
> two> machines?
> 
> Well, there is some "steady state" traffic that would be avoided by 
> only using
> one daemon.  It may have an effect on the predictability of message 
> deliverytimes as well (ie the multi-daemon configuration would 
> generally take longer
> to deliver messages).
> 
> Both of these points are pretty minor though, unless your apps are
> time-sensitive to the level of 10's of milliseconds.  There may be 
> some subtle
> changes in the protocols that actually get used on the wire, but it 
> shouldn'tbe anything you notice (again, unless you're applications 
> are highly sensitive
> to time).
> 
> It should be pretty easy to test both configurations yourself using 
> wiresharkor tcpdump or some other packet-dump utility.  It 
> shouldn't even require any
> application changes to tinker with the daemon config (unless the 
> connectstring is hard-coded in your apps).
> 
> Other people may have more detailed knowledge.
> HTH,
> Matt
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Matthew Gillen <mgillen at bbn.com>
> > Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:18 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Spread-users] network configuration
> > 
> >> KRIEGER Nicolas wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I would like to know which of the following configurations is 
> the 
> >> best.> Is it better to have a spread deamon on each machine 
> where 
> >> there must be
> >>> a client ? Or only a deamon on one machine and all clients (on 
> >> several> machines) access this machine ? All machines are in the 
> >> same network.
> >>
> >> Depends on whether a single point of failure is acceptable to you.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
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