[zeromq-dev] More on ZDCF

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Paul Colomiets <paul at colomiets.name> wrote:

> Is there any good reason to specify both, socket types and device type?

You can, and people sometimes do, mix these. Otherwise, indeed it's not useful.

> Is there any good reason to specify "xrep" vs "rep" socket types?
> I think it's implementation defined of whether it supports request
> multiplexing or other specific features of "x" kind of socket.

I renamed xrep/xreq to router/dealer.

-Pieter