[zeromq-dev] Asking for a suggestion: creating new connection between clients

[AJ Lewis]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Franz wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have the following scenario:
> -1 server, 2 or more clients
> -the client #1 owns something that interests other client(s), be it a
> file or a stream of data.
> -the client #2 does not know the name nor the IP of the client #1, just
> the one of the server.
> -Both clients connect to the server, and the server just "makes them
> able" to connect to each other. It might be something as easy as
> telling them the IP of the other client, or anything else. The
> important catch is that the file or stream should not go through the
> server, but straight from #1 to #2 (for saving bandwidth), more or
> less the same way it happens in P2P networks.
> 
> Any idea about what can be done in ZeroMQ to achieve this?

Any reason you can't use something that's already built for this, like
zeroconf for example?  It doesn't use ZeroMQ, but it's used quite a bit
for service discovery, which is what you're looking for I think.

Regards,
-- 
AJ Lewis
Software Engineer
Quantum Corporation

Work:    651 688-4346

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