[zeromq-dev] Reliable mulitcast

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Ofer Nave <onave at dyn.com> wrote:

>> If you have to use UDP multicast then ZeroMQ won't help you.

> Wouldn't ZeroMQ's ePGM transport (via PUB/SUB sockets) work for this
> case?  (That's assuming none of the listeners are on the same box as the
> multicaster; else it won't work due to lack of multicast loopback
> support, which is what tripped me up on my recent project.)

You're right, I'm an idiot. Yes, epgm would work nicely for this.
You'd have to do the file handling layer yourself, FileMQ wouldn't be
any use.

-Pieter