[zeromq-dev] Implementing failover in client side

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2010/10/13 Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com>:
> The code isn't finished but here is a design sketch:
>
> http://github.com/imatix/zguide/blob/master/articles/reliability.md
>
> There are some issues making this work simply, mainly that zmq_poll
> has the 'feature' of returning unpredictably.  There's a workaround
> for that here: http://www.zeromq.org/topics:zmq-poll-workaround but I
> hope we can fix this in zmq itself soon.

Hi, as I can read in that page the element doing the failover is a
queue rather than the client itself, am I right? Does it mean that a
single client (REQ socket) couldn't not use this failover feature by
itself?

Thanks a lot.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>