[zeromq-dev] Broadcasting Requests

[Henry Baragar]

POLLSTER/VOTER?

Henry


On May 5, 2011 12:41:04 PM Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> Don't forget that it must be able to associate with an ROUTER socket to
> work correctly.
> 
> As a new socket, not so sure for GATEWAY.  Isn't a gateway something that
> allow access to something else which you shouldn't access normally ?  Not
> in my use case anyway.  CARRIER or a DISTRIBUTOR may be ?  The fact is a
> two-way sockets make it quite difficult to find the right term. COLLECTOR
> could be interesting too (like the ones that send you bills and expected
> you to reply quickly...)
> 
> How hard should it be to implement such thing ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Fabien
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : zeromq-dev-bounces at lists.zeromq.org
> [mailto:zeromq-dev-bounces at lists.zeromq.org] De la part de Pieter Hintjens
> Envoyé : 5 mai 2011 11:15
> À : ZeroMQ development list
> Objet : Re: [zeromq-dev] Broadcasting Requests
> 
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Fabien Ninoles
> 
> <fabien.ninoles at ubisoft.com> wrote:
> > Moreover, since the behaviour of the PUBSUB/SUBPUB pair is exactly the
> > same as an XREQ/XREP pair with simply the XREQ broadcasting the message
> > instead of load-balancing it, I would like to know if there is feasible
> > to have something resembling this in the future ?
> 
> If you chart the current socket types and their semantics you see that
> a bidirectional fanout socket type is missing. I think you're the
> first person to define a use case for it. Nice!
> 
> It doesn't make sense to implement as a socket option on an existing
> socket, because this is either PUB tweaked to allow receiving, or
> DEALER tweaked to broadcast instead of load-balancing. I'd suggest a
> new socket type, e.g. GATEWAY.
> 
> -Pieter
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Henry Baragar
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