[zeromq-dev] Improving message patterns

[Martin Sustrik]

On 04/13/2011 08:53 AM, Paul Colomiets wrote:

> Yes, you can say that this is covered by IP. But isn't what covered by IP is
> also covered by ethernet?

IP solves a well defined problem: How to integrate arbitrary amount of 
Ethernets into a single addressable network. We need a similar 
definition for "route-to-address" pattern in 0MQ.

> What we want is logical addresses at zeromq level, which means both
> the possibility that two services would be on same machine, and the
> posibility that two machines will be used as a single logical node.
>
> Same happens with the network at every level: we theoretically could leave
> with single site per ip and give a machine several IP adresses, but usually
> we use domain names to both: group sites on single IP and load-balance
> single site to different IPs.

Ah, I should have said IP+DNS rather than just IP. Sorry.

Martin