[Spread-users] Are all group messages sent to all servers?

Jim Kleckner jek-spread at kleckner.net
Mon Jan 21 17:18:36 EST 2008


Lobiv Igor wrote:
>
> Hi Jim!
>
> I cannot repeat this behavior. | Version 4.00.00 Built 29/November/2006
>
> I created two daemons D1 and D2 on different computers. To each daemon 
> I attached two users. (To D1 I attached users U1 and U2, to D2 I 
> attached users U3, U4).
>
> I send safe message from U1 to private group #U2#D1. This message is 
> received by U2, but D1 didn’t send the message to D2. (I monitored 
> traffic via wireshark).
>
> So the question is: how to repeat behavior, described in your letter - 
> that “local” traffic sends to all remote daemon (user)?
>
> Jim Kleckner wrote:
>
> > John Lane Schultz wrote:
>
> >> I believe that all messages, including ones to private groups, go to all
>
> >> daemons right now. There has been talk of optimizing this behavior to
>
> >> only send meta-messages to all daemons and send the actual messages
>
> >> only to those daemons that need them, but this work has not yet been
>
> >> done.
>
> >>
>

Hi Igor -

Did you see broadcast packets on the subnet?
The daemons communicate on a LAN using
broadcast packets.

If you put D1 and D2 into separate segments,
then you should be able to trace TCP traffic
between them if John is correct.

Jim




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