[zeromq-dev] REQ-REP vs. DEALER-ROUTER

Jan Müller 217534 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 11:54:23 CET 2012


Hi,

I have a relatively slow network connection between two hosts and I want to 
reliably download lots of small messages from one host to the other.

So far, I've been sending messages with REQ-REP from host1 to host2 and 
before sending the next message, I've been waiting for an ACk message coming 
back. Unfortunately, the round trip time is too long, and now I would like 
to do this asynchronously.

What is a most simple way to do so? Do I need a DEALER-ROUTER connection? In 
host1 I send through DEALER let's say 100 messages, in ROUTER I receive one 
message after the other and immediately send back an ACK after each message 
received, and on the 'DEALER side' I poll for messages and count the 
incoming ACKs. If the number of incoming ACKS == number of sent messages all 
is fine, otherwise there was an error??

Or is there a better way of doing this?

Cheers,
Jan



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